[ltp] Help, Wireless on a Thinkpad Running SuSE

[Jeffrey Taylor]

Quoting Ken Firestone <kenf@speakeasy.net>:
> I recently loaded SuSE 9.1 on my new Thinkpad X31, and I am having a
> problem with the wireless card, the Intel minipci 2100. SuSE includes
> the module for this card, and yast detected and "configured" it. I
> made sure all the firmware modules were on the computer. However this
> is from dmesg when I modprobe the module:
> 
> Detected ipw2100 PCI device at 0000:02:02.0, dev: eth1, mem:
> 0xC0210000-0xC0210FFF -> e98c1000, irq: 11
> eth1: Using hotplug firmware load.
> eth1: Firmware not available or load failed
> eth1: ipw2100_get_firmware failed: -2
> eth1: Failed to power on the adapter.
> eth1: Failed to start the firmware.
> ipw2100: probe of 0000:02:02.0 failed with error -5
> 

Are you sure you have the firmware installed?  It should be in
/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware.  Or the legacy method, in /etc/firmware.
IIRC, the firmware is in a separate pacakge.

The ipw2100 driver is rapidly being developed.  Go to ipw2100.sf.net
for newer versions (0.55 came out a day or two ago).  There is an
active and helpful mailing list.

HTH,
  Jeffrey