[ltp] Help, Wireless on a Thinkpad Running SuSE

[Jonathan Gittos]

Haven't used it myself but I've seen the firmware waiting to be
downloaded on a Yast Online Update (YOU) - non-GPL so not included with
the distro - try that and see

On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 07:58 -0700, Ken Firestone wrote:
> 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
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> BTW, the Knoppix 3.6 disk detects, and properly sets up this device,
> and does it with a 2.4 kernel! And, yes I am considering blowing away
> SuSE and going with a Knoppix/Debian install. But I would like to see
> if I can get SuSE going first.
> 
> If you respond to me offline I will summarize and post.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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