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Topic: ipw2200 with 7.09 on an RB532A???

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Post #1
vector108
30 Nov 2007, 22:41

I'm trying to get an Intel WM3B2915ABG mini-PCI card working on a Mikrotik Routerboard 532A with the 7.09 build of Kamikaze.  I've compiled with the ipw2200 driver enabled (tried both 'built-in' and 'package' options ) along with (and without) kmod-ieee80211 & with (and without) kmod-ieee80211-softmac, have downloaded the Intel firmware (*.fw) files and placed them in /lib/firmware and get the following message on boot.  The  WM3B2915ABG checks out okay on an Ubuntu 7.10 box.

ipw2100: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Driver, git-1.2.2
ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.0km
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:0a.0 (0000 -> 0002)
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0a.0 to 64
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection
ipw2200: device failed to boot initial fw image
ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -62
ipw2200: failed to register network device
ipw2200: probe of 0000:00:0a.0 failed with error -5
eth1: link down
root@OpenWrt:~#

Any ideas as to what I need to do to cause this to work?  Is this a bug with 7.09?  Anyone else succeed in using an Intel ipw2200 device with Kamikaze 7.09?  Thanks in advance for any help/info.

Post #2
Borromini
21 Dec 2007, 05:33

I think the firmware needs to be loaded, modern linuxes do it with udev, OpenWRT has probably something similar (maybe a coldplug/hotplug implementation), I am not familiar with it though. That is the direction you should be looking in.

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