WONT RUN LINUX wireless networking

#1 (**permalink**) 04-13-2007, 02:12 PM

To Anyone;
I have a DELL LAPTOP 9200 Pemtium M 1gb RAM 60GB hdd Windows XP HE .
Easiest connection I ever made to WINDOWS! Intel/PROWireless WINDOWS sw. found an open broadcaster and I was on the air & surfing before the cable guy came three days after the laptop arrived.
Always connects to windows

I cannot get any LINUX distro to work with the wireless networking mini-pci card INTEL 2200BG inside the DELL LAPTOP 9200 I have.
Some of mixture of errors have been encountered searching thru DMESG|grep ipw or DMESG|grep fail searches.

Firmware, won't load error code -2 or -5
Intel card not recognized hardware
Missing library module ipw2200.xx.xx.xx
Missing library module ieee80211.yy.yy.yy

OR the wireless is completely ignored.

Fedora 4&5 ,Mandriva, SUSE, Ubuntu, Knoppix,SimplyMepis,Gentoo,Debian
POSTED messgaes all over the message boards to no avail.

READY to give up on LINUX being a MOBILE platform for main line corporate acquisition. Make my recommendations and stay with Microsoft® or Apple-On-Intel®.

Really a shame that all those laptop won't do LINUX and many won't do VISTA® with high hardware requirements. That means a lot of Money for Gate$ and CREW because the LINUX community IGNORED the blue guys from Intel® commercials. Intel Centrino Mobile Technology Inside® and the laptop stickers.

Intel site virtually worthless for LINUX too far under the covers with WINDOWS® and now Apple®.

I hope this gets stuck under under Michael Dell's nose and Intel and LINUS TORVALD.

Laptops don't do wireless unless its the first wireless card made for a laptop. The mobile Intel486 , 25 pound variety.

Jack from Princeton NJ

#2 (**permalink**) 04-13-2007, 02:46 PM

MontyW wrote:
<snip>

1. stop yelling
2. I've had a 2200BG running wireless in my IBM R51 for two years now. It can be done.
3. STFW

#3 (**permalink**) 04-13-2007, 03:41 PM

MontyW wrote:
> To Anyone;
> I have a DELL LAPTOP 9200 Pemtium M 1gb RAM 60GB hdd Windows XP HE .
> Easiest connection I ever made to WINDOWS! Intel/PROWireless WINDOWS
> sw. found an open broadcaster and I was on the air & surfing before the
> cable guy came three days after the laptop arrived.
> Always connects to windows
>
> I cannot get _*any*_ LINUX distro to work with the wireless networking
> mini-pci card INTEL 2200BG inside the DELL LAPTOP 9200 I have.
> Some of mixture of errors have been encountered searching thru
> DMESG|grep ipw or DMESG|grep fail searches.
>
> Firmware, won't load error code -2 or -5
> Intel card not recognized hardware
> Missing library module ipw2200.xx.xx.xx
> Missing library module ieee80211.yy.yy.yy

You have at least 2, maybe three problems. First of all, you need the firmware for the ipw2200. It
is usually not distributed with a standard CD. For example openSUSE has it on the "add-on" CD.
Second, it looks as if the kernel you were using doesn't have ieee80211 either built in or as a
module. Did you build your own?

The rest of your ugly rant is snipped. You should use a distro that employs NetworkManager for
controlling network connections (Fedora and openSUSE both do. I'm not sure about Ubuntu.). It is
much easier to use than Windows. You get an icon in the system tray that shows the various wireless
networks that are seen. When you click on one of them, it connects. Even you will be able to handle it.

#4 (**permalink**) 04-13-2007, 03:49 PM

"MontyW" <montyw47@hotmail.com> writes:

> To Anyone;
> I have a DELL LAPTOP 9200 Pemtium M 1gb RAM 60GB hdd Windows XP HE .
> Easiest connection I ever made to WINDOWS! Intel/PROWireless WINDOWS sw. found an open broadcaster and I was on the air & surfing before the cable guy came three days after the laptop arrived.
> Always connects to windows
>
> I cannot get any LINUX distro to work with the wireless networking mini-pci card INTEL 2200BG inside the DELL LAPTOP 9200 I have.
> Some of mixture of errors have been encountered searching thru DMESG|grep ipw or DMESG|grep fail searches.

Linux distributions may not work out of the box, but it's not espcecially
difficult to get them to work, and I believe your hardware is among the
easiest.

See

http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/

on how to get a bunch of things working under Fedora Core, including
wireless networking.

Scott
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#5 (**permalink**) 04-13-2007, 04:33 PM

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:46:41 -0400, the_bmac <bm@c.com> wrote in
<131v5tl1bnt8c7@news.supernews.com>:

>MontyW wrote:
><snip>
>
>1. stop yelling

And cut out the HTML.

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#6 (**permalink**) 04-13-2007, 05:24 PM

MontyW <montyw47@hotmail.com> wrote:
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Translated from the original html... please don't post html.

> I have a DELL LAPTOP 9200 Pemtium M 1gb RAM 60GB hdd Windows XP HE .
> Easiest connection I ever made to WINDOWS!

Windows tends to be an easy WiFi installation for supported hardware.

> I cannot get any LINUX distro to work with the wireless networking
> mini-pci card INTEL 2200BG inside the DELL LAPTOP 9200 I have.

A coworker with a Dell laptop and internal Intel wifi had it running so
easily with Fedora FC5 that he didn't even know what to tell me about how
he did it.

He's not very technical, and I was trying to get a Netgear PCMCIA card
running on my laptop, which I finally abandoned and got a DLink card. that
was more difficult than Windows, but it worked.

> Firmware, won't load error code -2 or -5
> Intel card not recognized hardware
> Missing library module ipw2200.xx.xx.xx
> Missing library module ieee80211.yy.yy.yy

Hmm. This works on Windows? If there is no firmware...

> Really a shame that all those laptop won't do LINUX and many won't do
> VISTAB.

Windows Vista will eventually get sorted out.

I think Linux came and went. Support exists for some cards, and will never
exist for others.

But you happen to have a cardset that it supported natively. You just have
some hardware/firmware issue.

> I hope this gets stuck under under Michael Dell's nose and Intel and
> LINUS TORVALD.

I doubt that they look at flailing rants.

I see that someone else has started to address the firmware issue. Once
that gets sorted out, you should be good to go with an Intel 2200.

Maybe a visit to http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/ would be helpful.

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#7 (**permalink**) 04-14-2007, 04:55 AM

MontyW wrote:

> To Anyone;
> I have a DELL LAPTOP 9200 Pemtium M 1gb RAM 60GB hdd Windows XP HE .
> Easiest connection I ever made to WINDOWS! Intel/PROWireless WINDOWS
> sw. found an open broadcaster and I was on the air & surfing before the
> cable guy came three days after the laptop arrived.
> Always connects to windows
>
> I cannot get _*any*_ LINUX distro to work with the wireless networking
> mini-pci card INTEL 2200BG inside the DELL LAPTOP 9200 I have.
> Some of mixture of errors have been encountered searching thru
> DMESG|grep ipw or DMESG|grep fail searches.
>
> Firmware, won't load error code -2 or -5
> Intel card not recognized hardware
> Missing library module ipw2200.xx.xx.xx
> Missing library module ieee80211.yy.yy.yy
>
> OR the wireless is completely ignored.
>
> Fedora 4&5 ,Mandriva, SUSE, Ubuntu, Knoppix,SimplyMepis,Gentoo,Debian
> POSTED messgaes all over the message boards to no avail.
>
> READY to give up on LINUX being a MOBILE platform for main line
> corporate acquisition. Make my recommendations and stay with Microsoft®
> or Apple-On-Intel®.
>
> Really a shame that all those laptop won't do LINUX and many won't do
> VISTA® with high hardware requirements. That means a lot of Money for
> Gate$ and CREW because the LINUX community IGNORED the blue guys from
> Intel® commercials. Intel Centrino Mobile Technology Inside® and the
> laptop stickers.
>
> Intel site virtually worthless for LINUX too far under the covers with
> WINDOWS® and now Apple®.
>
> I hope this gets stuck under under Michael Dell's nose and
> Intel and LINUS TORVALD.
>
> Laptops don't do wireless unless its the first wireless card made for a
> laptop. The mobile Intel486 , 25 pound variety.
>
> Jack from Princeton NJ
Hi,
Use nidiswrapper.

#8 (**permalink**) 04-15-2007, 05:34 PM

Looks like you need to install the firmware which doesn't come with the
"free" downloads. Also, it looks like you need to install the library
packages. That said, when I installed the Mandriva 2007 Power Pack
edition, the ipw2200 in my Dell Inspiron 600m worked great. Before
purchasing a linux distro, I installed the ipw and ieee tarballs which
worked out great - but was a bit more time consuming.

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:12:28 -0700, MontyW wrote:

> To Anyone;
> I have a DELL LAPTOP 9200 Pemtium M 1gb RAM 60GB hdd Windows XP HE .
> Easiest connection I ever made to WINDOWS! Intel/PROWireless WINDOWS sw. found an open broadcaster and I was on the air & surfing before the cable guy came three days after the laptop arrived.
> Always connects to windows
>
> I cannot get any LINUX distro to work with the wireless networking mini-pci card INTEL 2200BG inside the DELL LAPTOP 9200 I have.
> Some of mixture of errors have been encountered searching thru DMESG|grep ipw or DMESG|grep fail searches.
>
> Firmware, won't load error code -2 or -5
> Intel card not recognized hardware
> Missing library module ipw2200.xx.xx.xx
> Missing library module ieee80211.yy.yy.yy
>
> OR the wireless is completely ignored.
>
> Fedora 4&5 ,Mandriva, SUSE, Ubuntu, Knoppix,SimplyMepis,Gentoo,Debian
> POSTED messgaes all over the message boards to no avail.
>
> READY to give up on LINUX being a MOBILE platform for main line corporate acquisition. Make my recommendations and stay with MicrosoftÂ® or Apple-On-IntelÂ®.
>
> Really a shame that all those laptop won't do LINUX and many won't do VISTAÂ® with high hardware requirements. That means a lot of Money for Gate$ and CREW because the LINUX community IGNORED the blue guys from IntelÂ® commercials. Intel Centrino Mobile Technology InsideÂ® and the laptop stickers.
>
> Intel site virtually worthless for LINUX too far under the covers with WINDOWSÂ® and now AppleÂ®.
>
> I hope this gets stuck under under Michael Dell's nose and Intel and LINUS TORVALD.
>
> Laptops don't do wireless unless its the first wireless card made for a laptop. The mobile Intel486 , 25 pound variety.
>
> Jack from Princeton NJ <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
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> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">To Anyone;</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">I have a DELL LAPTOP 9200 Pemtium M 1gb RAM 60GB
> hdd Windows XP HE .</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Easiest connection I ever made to WINDOWS!
>  Intel/PROWireless WINDOWS sw. found an open broadcaster and I was on the
> air & surfing before the cable guy came three days after the laptop
> arrived.</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Always connects to windows </FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT> </DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"> I cannot get <FONT
> size=5><U><STRONG>any</STRONG></U> LINUX distro</FONT> to work with the wireless
> networking mini-pci card INTEL 2200BG inside the  DELL LAPTOP 9200 I
> have.</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Some of  mixture of errors have been
> encountered searching thru DMESG|grep ipw  or DMESG|grep fail
> searches.</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT> </DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Firmware, won't load error code -2 or
> -5</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Intel  card not recognized
> hardware</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Missing library module
> ipw2200.xx.xx.xx</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Missing   library module
> ieee80211.yy.yy.yy</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT> </DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">OR the wireless is completely
> ignored.</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT> </DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Fedora 4&5 ,Mandriva, SUSE,
> Ubuntu,</FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"> </FONT><FONT
> face="Comic Sans MS">Knoppix,SimplyMepis,Gentoo,Debian</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">POSTED messgaes all over the message boards to
> no avail. </FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT> </DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">READY to give up on LINUX being a MOBILE
> platform for main line corporate acquisition. Make my recommendations and stay
> with Microsoft<FONT size=4>Â®</FONT> or Apple-On-Intel<FONT
> size=4>Â®</FONT>.</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT> </DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Really a shame that all those laptop won't do
> LINUX and many won't do VISTA<FONT size=4>Â®</FONT> with high hardware
> requirements. That means a lot of Money for Gate$ and CREW because the LINUX
> community IGNORED the blue guys from Intel<FONT size=4>Â®</FONT>
> commercials.   Intel </FONT><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Centrino Mobile
> Technology Inside<FONT size=4>Â® and the laptop
> stickers.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=4></FONT> </DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=4>Intel site virtually worthless for LINUX
> too far under the covers with WINDOWSÂ® and now Apple<FONT
> size=4>Â®.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=4></FONT> </DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=4>I hope this gets stuck under under
> Michael Dell's nose and Intel and LINUS TORVALD.</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV> </DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=4>Laptops don't do wireless unless its
> the first wireless  card made for a laptop.</FONT> <FONT
> face="Comic Sans MS" size=4>The mobile Intel486 , 25 pound variety.</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=4></FONT> </DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=4>Jack from Princeton NJ
> </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>

#9 (**permalink**) 04-15-2007, 05:46 PM

On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 04:55:17 +0000, Tony Hwang wrote:

> MontyW wrote:
>
>> To Anyone;
>> I have a DELL LAPTOP 9200 Pemtium M 1gb RAM 60GB hdd Windows XP HE .
>> Easiest connection I ever made to WINDOWS! Intel/PROWireless WINDOWS
>> sw. found an open broadcaster and I was on the air & surfing before the
>> cable guy came three days after the laptop arrived.
>> Always connects to windows
>>
>> I cannot get _*any*_ LINUX distro to work with the wireless networking
>> mini-pci card INTEL 2200BG inside the DELL LAPTOP 9200 I have.
>> Some of mixture of errors have been encountered searching thru
>> DMESG|grep ipw or DMESG|grep fail searches.
>>
>> Firmware, won't load error code -2 or -5
>> Intel card not recognized hardware
>> Missing library module ipw2200.xx.xx.xx
>> Missing library module ieee80211.yy.yy.yy
>>
>> OR the wireless is completely ignored.
>>
>> Fedora 4&5 ,Mandriva, SUSE, Ubuntu, Knoppix,SimplyMepis,Gentoo,Debian
>> POSTED messgaes all over the message boards to no avail.
>>
>> READY to give up on LINUX being a MOBILE platform for main line
>> corporate acquisition. Make my recommendations and stay with MicrosoftÂ®
>> or Apple-On-IntelÂ®.
>>
>> Really a shame that all those laptop won't do LINUX and many won't do
>> VISTAÂ® with high hardware requirements. That means a lot of Money for
>> Gate$ and CREW because the LINUX community IGNORED the blue guys from
>> IntelÂ® commercials. Intel Centrino Mobile Technology InsideÂ® and the
>> laptop stickers.
>>
>> Intel site virtually worthless for LINUX too far under the covers with
>> WINDOWSÂ® and now AppleÂ®.
>>
>> I hope this gets stuck under under Michael Dell's nose and
>> Intel and LINUS TORVALD.
>>
>> Laptops don't do wireless unless its the first wireless card made for a
>> laptop. The mobile Intel486 , 25 pound variety.
>>
>> Jack from Princeton NJ
> Hi,
> Use nidiswrapper.

That's not necessary when there is good Linux support from Intel for this
card.

#10 (**permalink**) 04-18-2007, 05:52 PM

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:33:53 +0000, John Navas sez:

>>1. stop yelling
>
> And cut out the HTML.

Sit up straight, and quit picking your nose.

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