[ltp] ipw2100 Firmware and Ubuntu

[Alejandro Bonilla]

Guillermo,

Well well, Ubuntu and not Debian... :|

1. Does the ipw2100-source contain the firmware or do you need to add it 
into /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware? Make sure the versions match

dmesg | grep ipw2100
then compare the installed version with the firmware version you are 
using... Probably also dmesg will tell you more info...

2. Make sure you have hotplug installed...
3. Probably hotplug with ipw2100 and that version (Probably Sid, is b0rked?)
4. kernel-image-2.6.10?

- Alejandro


Guillermo Latorre wrote:

>Hi!
>
>Recently I removed all the data on my Thinkpad T41, and because of the
>exams period, I have installed an Ubuntu system. I have had no problems
>installing anything, I recommend this distribution.
>
>Yesterday, I was working with Wireless connection with no problem. Today
>I have changed the repositories on /etc/apt/sources.list and have
>written the Debian ones. After resolving some problems of dependences
>and my first dist-upgrade (about 400 MB), at the boot time Ubuntu says
>that can't load the ipw2100 firmware, or firmware bad, or something
>similar (it goes really fast), so Wireless doesn't work on my computer.
>The module is loaded with no problems, a "lsmod" command shows:
>
>ipw2100                90596  0
>firmware_class          9728  1 ipw2100
>ieee80211              21124  1 ipw2100
>ieee80211_crypt         5704  1 ieee80211
>
>
>I don't know what can be happened... Could the first dist-upgrade
>overwrite something? (I have read that Debian and Ubuntu repositories
>are no totally compatible)
>
>Any idea?
>
>Thank you very much!!!
>
>Guille
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