Bug 720235

Summary:	Can´t use IPW2200 Wlan Card
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 12.1	Reporter:	Peter Mark <peter.mark>
Component:	Network	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Milestone 5
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	Other
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Beta-Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	No
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Peter Mark 2011-09-25 11:11:35 UTC

dmesg output:

[    8.069088] libipw: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
[    8.074555] libipw: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
[    8.099829] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2kdmprq
[    8.105323] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
[    8.110006] ipw2200 0000:01:0d.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
[    8.114618] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
[    8.424982] ipw2200: ipw2200-bss.fw request_firmware failed: Reason -2
[    8.430520] ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2
[    8.435152] ipw2200: failed to register network device
[    8.439561] ipw2200 0000:01:0d.0: PCI INT A disabled
[    8.443887] ipw2200: probe of 0000:01:0d.0 failed with error -5

hwinfo tells:

29: PCI 10d.0: 0282 WLAN controller
  [Created at pci.318]
  Unique ID: VeW7.gy1ZasUC0k5
  Parent ID: 6NW+.1yBhv2xnpj4
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:01:0d.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:01:0d.0
  Hardware Class: network
  Model: "Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection"
  Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
  Device: pci 0x4220 "PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection"
  SubVendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
  SubDevice: pci 0x2702 
  Revision: 0x05
  Features: WLAN
  Memory Range: 0xd0215000-0xd0215fff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  IRQ: 11 (21396 events)
  Requires: ipw-firmware
  Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d00004220sv00008086sd00002702bc02sc80i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: ipw2200 is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe ipw2200"
  Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #18 (PCI bridge)

HW: FujitsuSiemens Lifebook E8010D

Comment 1 Peter Mark 2011-09-25 12:14:12 UTC

Problem found:

openSUSE-Installer doesn´t install needed Firmware ipw2200-fw for module ipw2200, despite the fact that the kernel has found the Hardware.

Comment 2 Peter Mark 2011-09-26 06:38:16 UTC

Same prob as bugs 715860 & 716997

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 715860 ***