[ltp] Help, Wireless on a Thinkpad Running SuSE

[Ken Firestone]

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Jeffrey Taylor wrote:

   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 firmware was installed, just the wrong version. SuSE uses an older
version of the driver, hence older firmware. And this took quite a bit
of googleing to get to the bottom.


   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.

Right, hopefully it won't break when used with SuSE.
   HTH,

Yep. Now I have to figure out how to get the SuSE concept of DHCP to
not just get an ip address, but also get DNS servers. It wants to use
eth0 for ethernet, and eth1 for wireless, and when there is no
ethernet, it can't find the network beyond the wireless lan.

I'm beginning to think SuSE is German for Stupid. (And I used to have
such good luck with SuSE)


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