wireless - amilo pro v2000 **SOLVED**

nahoj1976 · 2005-03-13 22:18:33

I have a amilo pro v2000 laptop with ipw2200 wireless card.

I have installed arch with newest kernel and modules. I load the module ipw2200 at boot in rc.conf

dmesg says:

ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.0
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:06.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
ipw2200: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On:
Kill switch must be turned off for wireless networking to work.

I have tried to get the RF switch to work but haven't managed.

in rfswitch.sourceforge.net they say that I should use the FS Amilo module FSAM 7400 but they give only support for redhat, suse and mandrake and this module is only available in rpm and to make it even more difficult only for the ipw2100 card and therefor I cant even compile the module...

Please help if anyone knows how to get further. :?

*****
Finally it works!

This I have done:
1. downloaded fsam7400
2. compiled it with make, make install
3. updated kernel to 2.6.11
4. updated hotplug, udf, ipw2200

Start of wireless card is done in rc-local with this sequence:
--
echo 100 > /sys/class/firmware/timeout
modprobe fsam7400 radio=1 autooff=0 autoload=0
modprobe ipw2200
--
first line gives the card more time to start
second line turns off rf-switch
third line loads driver

Now I can connect to my network and start the card with
ifconfig eth2 192.168.0.52

phrakture · 2005-03-14 02:15:37

try messing around with "/sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/*/rf_kill"

maybe "echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/*/rf_kill" ??

phrakture · 2005-03-14 02:16:13

cat /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/*/rf_kill
----
0 = RF kill not enabled (radio on)
1 = SW based RF kill active (radio off)
2 = HW based RF kill active (radio off)
3 = Both HW and SW RF kill active (radio off)

nahoj1976 · 2005-03-14 19:40:11

Thank you for your help, unfortunately I am still stuck.

I can use the link to the process and I can toggle it between 2 and three but I can't get it down to 0.

When I do

echo 1 > /proc/... etc

cat /proc/... etc
results 3

When I do
echo 0 > /proc... etc

cat results in 2

If I try any other numbers I get the same result! It stops at 2.

According to your figures it should get to 0 until it is stopped.

****************

A few more questions:
the only place I can see information on the rf-swith is from dmesg or from the 'cat /...' stuff. Are there other ways to check it?

Should the diod start lightning when the RF switch is put off or do I need to start up the card too?

:?

phrakture · 2005-03-14 20:59:57

hmmm, from the ipw2200 docs:
rf_kill
read -
0 = RF kill not enabled (radio on)
1 = SW based RF kill active (radio off)
2 = HW based RF kill active (radio off)
3 = Both HW and SW RF kill active (radio off)
write -
0 = If SW based RF kill active, turn the radio back on
1 = If radio is on, activate SW based RF kill

I don't have this card so I can't help as much...

so maybe write 1 then 0? I'm not sure....

LB06 · 2005-03-14 22:34:47

I've had the same problems. Installing acerhk (Acer HotKeys) did the trick. This program works only with Acer, Medion or Fujutsi(??) Notebooks afaik.

nahoj1976 · 2005-03-15 20:47:21

Now I have tried and managed to install FSAM7400 rf-switch.

The DMESG now says this:

fsam7400: SW RF kill switch for Fujitsu Siemens Amilo M 7400, v0.4.0
fsam7400: Copyright(c) 2004 zwobbl
fsam7400: physical memory f0000-100000 mapped to virtual address c00f0000
fsam7400: bios signature found at offset 6460
fsam7400: supposed address of bios routine is c00fdd00
fsam7400: bios routine gets parameter eax=9610 and ebx=235
fsam7400: bios routine results 3
fsam7400: bios routine gets parameter eax=9610 and ebx=135
fsam7400: bios routine results 10
fsam7400: loading of ipw2100 module FAILED
ipw2200: ipw-2.2-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2
ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: 0xFFFFFFFE
ipw2200: Failed to up device
shouldn't the firmware install automatically?

Now I tested and found that the radio is put on with help of fsam7400 which works fine!

but :cry:

when I try to load ipw2200 after fsam 7400 those firmware stuff gets up.
I even tried downloading sorce and firmware directly from sourceforge and then compile the module and manually installed the module and the newly downloaded firmware.

dmesg says:
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.0
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:06.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
ipw2200: ipw-2.2-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2
ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: 0xFFFFFFFE
ipw2200: failed to register network device
ipw2200: probe of 0000:02:06.0 failed with error -5

nahoj1976 · 2005-03-16 08:08:39

:?

Thanks for all help so far. Things are happening and I have come far longer than any other time I tried. :?

Now I've given it a new try:
1) fsam7400 switch has managed to put the radio on:
--
% cat /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/*/rf_kill
0
--

2) when I try to load the ipw2200 with modprobe this comes from dmesg:
--
%dmesg
ipw2200: ipw-2.2-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2
ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: 0xFFFFFFFE
ipw2200: Failed to up device
ACPI-0352: *** Error: Looking up [_PR_.CPU0.CSTX] in namespace, AE_NOT_FOUND
search_node cf6d3880 start_node cf6d3880 return_node 00000000
ACPI-1138: *** Error: Method execution failed [_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.EC__._Q44] (Node cf6d3880), AE_NOT_FOUND
ipw2200: No space for Tx
ipw2200: failed to send SCAN_REQUEST_EXT command
ipw2200: ipw-2.2-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2
ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: 0xFFFFFFFE
ipw2200: Failed to up device
--
3) I copied and installed the scripts phracture have done to start the card. I changed the profile in order to fit and this happens.
--
% dmesg
eth2: no IPv6 routers present
--
% ifconfig
eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet addr:192.168.0.52 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::200:ff:fe00:0/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe000 Memory:e0203000-e0203fff
---
% iwconfig
sit0 no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 no wireless extensions.

eth2 unassociated ESSID:"LILLAFETSJO"
Mode:Managed Channel=0 Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate=0 kb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
--
As far as I can understand the problem now is that the firmware wont load and therefor the card will not function - no hardware address is shown on it. But how should I manage to get through this? :?

nahoj · 2005-05-23 14:08:22

This long story have been rolling since september...

This is the situation today:

I have loaded ipw2200 driver ok. Updated to latest pacman.

I have loaded fsam7400 and that works well - the switch is turned of so the card should be startable.

When i boot FSAM starts and ipw2200 loads but then it stops.

When trying to load the firmware (...fw.boot.ko I think it was called - have to reboot into xp in order to be able to connect to internet from here...) it cant load firmware.

Error -2

I have tried to follow the instructions on sourceforgenet to raise the time in /sys/.../TIMEOUT to 100.

I have looked into /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent to see in what directory the firmware should be loaded and I even copied them into a bunch of more directories where one could believe they could be located...

And I guess the pacman package should include the right firmware and load it into right directory?

But please - anyone with more knowledge than I have - what should I do?
:cry:

Anyone that

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