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johntwenty

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Registered: 2016-05-07

Posts: 4

ipw2200 on a IMB T42

Hi everyone,

I've recently purchased an old IMB Thinkpad T42 laptop and put Arch on it.

I'm really happy about how well it runs, however there is one problem I can't solve. (I have been using linux for a long time now, mainly Debian, but I am new to Arch)

The issue is with my wireless card Intel ProWireless 2200

here is my lspci -v

02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)
	Subsystem: Intel Corporation IBM ThinkPad R50e
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
	Memory at c0214000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
	Kernel driver in use: ipw2200
	Kernel modules: ipw2200

I installed ipw2200-fw that it said it needed in the arch wiki.

But when I check dmesg, I get:

[   18.889533] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2kmprq
[   18.889538] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
[   18.889759] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
[   19.206367] ipw2200: Detected geography ZZD (13 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)
[   19.227711] ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
[   19.378315] ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
[   19.510630] ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.

(the Firmware errors go on and on)

I checked the Forum for posts about this issue, but everything I found dealt with a 2.6 Kernel and I'm running 4.5.1-1-ARCH.

Any Ideas on how I could get to the bottom of this?

Thanx
John

jasonwryan

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Re: ipw2200 on a IMB T42

Old thread, but might be still relevant: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=51373

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johntwenty

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Registered: 2016-05-07

Posts: 4

Re: ipw2200 on a IMB T42

Thank you for the suggestion, but I have already tried that.

I should have mentioned that I have tried everything I could find on this forum except for downgrading my kernel as the suggestion there was to go back to 2.6 which is way old now.

Is there any way to rule out that the problem is caused by a physical defect? (This machine is pretty old.)

Thanks
John

johntwenty

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Registered: 2016-05-07

Posts: 4

Re: ipw2200 on a IMB T42

Ok, have now updated to Kernel 4.5.4-1-ARCH, but the problem doesn't seem to be related to the kernel. Is there anything I could check to get to the bottom of this?

Thanks
John

johntwenty

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Registered: 2016-05-07

Posts: 4

Re: ipw2200 on a IMB T42

This is just to put my post back to where it may be found as I'm still without a solution.

It would be great if somebody could just give me a pointer as to how I could proceed.

Thanx
John

pypi

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Registered: 2014-04-22

Posts: 250

Re: ipw2200 on a IMB T42

It seems that the adaptor is fairly flaky under Linux; perhaps you could find a different wireless card and use that instead? ThinkWiki has some more suggestions to try.