ipw2200 doesn't work in Dell inspiron 6000

an update:

I have noticed that if I remove power to the device (Fn+F2) and then load the module, it loads fine:

 ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <email address hidden>
[17180263.268000] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.1.2kmprq
[17180263.268000] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
[17180263.268000] Driver 'ipw2200' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
[17180263.268000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:03.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
[17180263.268000] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
[17180263.432000] ipw2200: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On:
[17180263.432000] Kill switch must be turned off for wireless networking to work.
[17180263.432000] ipw2200: Detected geography ZZM (11 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)
[17180263.460000] eth1: NETDEV_TX_BUSY returned; driver should report queue full via ieee_device->is_queue_full.

However, ever after I turn it back on, it can't find any networks around me...

In addition, when it doesn't start I now get this (dmesg instead of /var/log/messages):

[17180366.684000] ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
[17180366.688000] ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
[17180366.688000] ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <email address hidden>
[17180366.692000] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.1.2kmprq
[17180366.692000] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
[17180366.692000] Driver 'ipw2200' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
[17180366.692000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:03.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
[17180366.692000] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
[17180367.852000] ipw2200: Failed to send TX_POWER: Command timed out.
[17180368.972000] ipw2200: Failed to send TX_POWER: Command timed out.
[17180370.092000] ipw2200: Failed to send TX_POWER: Command timed out.
[17180371.212000] ipw2200: Failed to send TX_POWER: Command timed out.
[17180372.332000] ipw2200: Failed to send TX_POWER: Command timed out.
[17180372.332000] ipw2200: Unable to initialize device after 5 attempts.
[17180372.332000] ipw2200: failed to register network device
[17180372.332000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:03:03.0 disabled
[17180372.332000] ipw2200: probe of 0000:03:03.0 failed with error -5

I have the same problem on the same computer. Has anybody been able to solve it?

It also worked when using Ubuntu 6.06 but can't get it to work under 6.10...

[17179590.944000] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.1.2kmprq
[17179590.944000] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
[17179590.944000] Driver 'ipw2200' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
[17179591.000000] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[17179591.000000] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5
[17179591.060000] usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
[17179591.076000] input: Logitech USB Optical Mouse as /class/input/input4
[17179591.076000] input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:1d.3-2
[17179591.076000] usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
[17179591.076000] drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
[17179591.220000] intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 55512 usecs
[17179591.220000] intel8x0: clocking to 48000
[17179591.220000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:03.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
[17179591.236000] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
[17179591.244000] cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: excluding 0x370-0x377
[17179591.244000] cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: excluding 0x3f0-0x3f7
[17179591.248000] cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean.
[17179591.248000] cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcf7: clean.
[17179591.248000] cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
[17179591.476000] ipw2200: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On:
[17179591.476000] Kill switch must be turned off for wireless networking to work.
[17179591.476000] ipw2200: Detected geography ZZD (13 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)

I notice it sais
Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On:
And the next line is
Kill switch must be turned off for wireless networking to work

So how do I turn radio OFF?

I think you want to turn the radio ON. The kill switch turns the radio OFF to save battery life. There should be a button to turn wireless on and off on your notebook. Just push it into the other position and it should enable wireless (assuming the switch isn't broken).

Yes that did it (Fn + F2) toggles the wirless card on and off.

I just got the ipw2200 working on an Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG. I'm running the Ubuntu 7.10 (Oct.2007) Live-CD on a Dell Inspiron 6000. At first, the device did not work at all. There are two BIOS settings for the wireless device. For me they were set to disable the wireless device on start-up, and enable the FN+F2 hot key. This wasn't working for me, although it didn't help that the LED never lit, so I didn't know the on/off state. Anyway, I changed the BIOS settings (F2 on start-up), to enable wireless device on start up, and to enable application control which also disables the Fn+F2 hardware hotkey. The wireless worked automatically upon booting Linux. I just had to click the network icon in the upper right and connect.

Hello,

I haven't tried using ubuntu 7.10 on this laptop so I don't know if the issue was solved or not yet.

What I do know is that it's not the bios settings (although they may have helped you) - I use Sabayon now (with the said settings turned on) and the F2 button works. If you ever decide to turn them back to the way they were, you can see if wifi is killed or not by running 'iwconfig' in a console. If it says 'unassociated' (or associated, of course) then it is on. if says 'off' in the 'power' tab, then it is turned off (I hope I made sense).

Hi,

The 18 month support period for Edgy Eft 6.10 has reached it's end of life. As a result, we are closing the linux-source-2.6.17 Edgy Eft kernel task. However, Hardy Heron 8.04 was recently released. It would be helpful if you could test the new release and verify if this is still an issue - http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . You should be able to test your bug using the LiveCD. If the issue still exists, please add the Hardy kernel "linux" task to the bug report. This can be done by clicking on the "Also affects distribution" link in the Actions area on left hand side of the bug report. Select "Ubuntu" as the Distribution and type in "linux" for the Source Package Name. Thanks.