dinyar’s blog

So, once again I’m well aware that I haven’t posted in ages, but I’ve been really busy with university and stuff and apart from that my life hasn’t been that exciting..

Anyway I got rid of Ubuntu Edgy Eft last night on my R51 to replace it by Debian Sid, which I like far better and after solving a few issues with x.org (installing xserver-xorg-inupt-mouse, -synaptics, and several fonts packages proved to do the trick) I tryed to get my wireless network up and running.

So I installed the amazing NetworkManager. As I was used to it detecting all availible networks I expected it to do the same with me, but to no avail. So I checked dmesg for all messages regarding ipw2200 (my network cards driver) and found the following:

ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2kmprq
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
ipw2200: ipw2200-bss.fw request_firmware failed: Reason -2
ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2
ipw2200: failed to register network device
ipw2200: probe of 0000:02:02.0 failed with error -5

I’m not quite sure what causes this with me as I couldn’t find anything on the net about similar experiences by other users, but I checked with ThinkWiki  and found instructions to install the ipw2200 firmware manually. With this everything worked alright, checking out other stuff right now, might post more later..