[PlanetCCRMA] Wireless in FC4 -- Is it the Kernel?

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 20:05 +0800, Robert Jonkman wrote:
> I've finally got my wireless running--well sort of.  If I boot up with 
> the default FC4 kernel, it works fine, however using the planet kernel, 
> the ipw2200 fails to load.  Do I have to recompile the kernel to add 
> wirelesss support?  I have kernel version 2.6.12-0.21.rdt.rhfc4.ccrma, 
> this is the one that won't load the firmware. 
> 
> This is from my dmegs log file.
> Oct 27 18:25:18 localhost kernel: ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 
> 2200BG Network Connection
> Oct 27 18:25:18 localhost kernel: ipw2200: ipw2200_boot.fw load failed
> Oct 27 18:25:18 localhost kernel: ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: 
> 0xFFFFFFFE
> Oct 27 18:25:18 localhost kernel: ipw2200: failed to register network device
> Oct 27 18:25:18 localhost kernel: ipw2200: probe of 0000:01:05.0 failed 
> with error -5
> 
> I googled and found this:
> http://bughost.org/bugzilla/long_list.cgi?buglist=601
> 
> It's suggested that the problem is a timeout issue when trying to load 
> the driver.  Anyways I tried their suggestion:
> 
> echo 100 > /sys/class/firmware/timeout
> 
> ..but that never fixed the problem.  I'm so happy that I'm able to use 
> my wireless card at all, I'd just like to use with a planet kernel.

I think the one time I saw this issue in some student laptop I did the
same thing (change the timeout) but the problem turned out to be that
the firmware was not correctly installed (in /lib/firmware). 

-- Fernando