[ltp] help with wireless/sound on R50

[Hamie]

rick wrote:

> I just managed to get Debian unstable up and running. Things are going 
> great except I don't have sound and I want to get wireless up and 
> running. It has the built in centrino so I am trying to get the 
> ipw2100 up and running. I have never used wireless in linux and I am 
> getting a bit confused as I don't know how this should be working.
> System Info:
> Debian unstable with kernel 2.6.6-1-686 package
> 1) Sound: does anyone have a quick how-to on getting sound up and 
> running? I can't find any details of a working R50 in 
> linux-laptop.net. Most of the laptops in there seem to have sound 
> working out of the box. I did have Mandrake 10 on here for a day and 
> it did have working sound, but of course I didn't check it out before 
> I blew it away.


Hmm.. r50... Not sure how much that differs from the r50p, but my 50p 
works fine. Not OOTB, but then I compile my own kernels. The sound 
module is snd_intel8x0 under 2.6.6

> 2) Wireless: Does anyone have a good beginning to end info sheet on 
> how wireless works on Linux systems, what files are involved and where 
> they are most often located. I keep finding bits and peices that are 
> confusing me. There is a firmware file, but that is odd, because I 
> usually think of firmware as in the hardware. There is the ipw2100 
> driver, which I can't get to compile. I get this:
> # make HOSTAP=$HOSTAP
> make -C /lib/modules/2.6.6-1-686/build SUBDIRS=/usr/src/ipw2100-0.45 
> MODVERDIR=/usr/src/ipw2100-0.45 modules
> make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.6-1-686/build: No such file or directory.  
> Stop.
> make: *** [modules] Error 2
> It's right, I don't have a /lib/modules/2.6.6-1/build directory.
> I am supposed to check if CONFIG_NET_RADIO is on in my kernel, but I 
> don't have a autoconf.h file to check in on my system.
> I guess I am used to wired lans to much. You get the driver 
> loaded...then there are a couple of files to worry about to get your 
> network up and running. Wireless seems to have 6 different peices and 
> I can't seem to find a complete guide to this.
> Thanks for the help.


Checkout the ipw2100.sourceforge.net page. I have it running fine with 
2.6.6, but then I use kernel.org's 2.6.6 sources & run that.

> Rick