[wplug] IBM T42 IPW2200

[Matthew T. Engel]

Hello All,

I trying to setup an IBM T42 laptop which has the integrated intel
wireless chipset (fedora core 3).  

I have successfully installed and configured this setup several months
ago (december/january w/older driver versions ipw2200 sourceforce
drivers, and w/out SELinux), but after fresh FC3 install (SELinux
enabled) and upgrading to kernel 2.6.11 I'm having some problems.

After installing driver and firmware, reboot, new hardware is detected,
and I am able configure eth1 to use dhcp.  However, later in the boot
process after eth1 is brought up, i get an error, "ipw2220 device eth1
does not seem to be present, delaying initialization." 

checking the dmesg shows errors about ipw2200 not being able to load
firmware....


I recompiled 2.6.11 kernel with options:
"device drivers" --> "Generic device drivers"
	[ ] select only drivers that don't need compile time firemware.
	[ ] prevent firmware from being built.
	[*] hotplug firmware loading support. 
	(the last option being the only one selected).

Now after #make install, I get warnings for ipw2200.ko and ieee80211.ko
and _crypt "need unkown symbol netpoll_trap".  ?I have no idea what this
warning means?

any help appreciated... thanks in advance.
matt engel
mengel at allegheny.edu