wireless problem

[max lent]

i have followed step below to setting my wireless on my laptop in slackware.but it show error.can anyone explent to me.. like where to put file@module correctly that file belong

 

Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG

 

I wanted to get my wireless card working, because I'm always on the go with my laptop and I need to be able to access wireless internet at home and at school. So, I went to the IPW2200 project page at SourceForge which was originally created by Intel to enable support for the 2200BG and 2915ABG wireless miniPCI adapters.

 

To use this driver, you will need Kernel v2.6.8+, Wireless Extensions & Tools, the IPW2200 driver and the IPW2200 binary firmware image. Since we already have Kernel 2.6.14.5 installed, it already comes with Wireless Extensions(v19) which was implemented in the 2.6.13 kernel version. Wireless Tools(v27) is also included in Slackware, and we won't have to bother installing it.

 

We will need the following options set in our .config and compiled into the kernel, and for the support of wireless encryption you will need a few more options enabled, so be sure you have this set before you go any furthur

 

CONFIG_NET_RADIO=y

CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y

CONFIG_CRYPTO=y

 

Optional support for WEP

 

CONFIG_CRYPTO_ARC4=y

CONFIG_CRC32=y

 

Optional support for WPA, you will also need the previous options from WEP enabled as well

 

CONFIG_CRYPTO_MICHAEL_MIC=y

CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES_586=y

 

We need to have sysfs mounted. This facility is used to query and control the operation of the ipw2200 driver. You can do this by adding an entry to /etc/fstab if it hasn't already been done so.

 

none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0

 

If the /sys directory does not already exist, you will need to create and mount it

 

mkdir /sys

mount -a

 

Install the ieee80211 modules error show after i type this.

 

tar xfvz ieee80211-1.1.6.tgz

cd ieee80211-1.1.6

make

make install

 

Now we will build and install the driver

 

tar xfvz ipw2200-1.0.8.tgz

cd ipw2200-1.0.8

make

make install

 

Let's install the firmware now. The INSTALL document suggests that we install firmware to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware, however it also says to check /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent to determine the specific location where you install firmware to in your specific distribution. After checking the firmware.agent file, I determined that /lib/firmware is the directory to where to install for Slackware, however that directory has not been created.

 

Create /lib/firmware directory (if it does not already exist) and extract the binary firmware images

 

mkdir /lib/firmware

tar xfvz ipw2200-fw-2.4.tgz

 

Now, you should be all set and you could reboot and it should load properly. To check this do

 

dmesg

 

If you have any errors at the end like this, chances are your firmware is installed to the wrong directory. Double check /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent on where to install firmware images to

 

ipw2200: Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.8

ipw2200: Copyright© 2003-2004 Intel Corporation

ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection

ipw2200: ipw-2.4-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2

ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: 0xFFFFFFFE

ipw2200: failed to register network device

ipw2200: probe of 0000:00:0b.0 failed with error -5

[ianw1974]

What is the error? Without it, will make it very hard for us to diagnose your problem! Please post exact error message.