[ltp] ipw2100 Firmware and Ubuntu

[Guillermo Latorre]

El dom, 30-01-2005 a las 23:30 -0600, Alejandro Bonilla escribió:
> 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
> 
Thank you for your reply.

I didn't need to add anything, the installation program did it by
itself. I have nothing in "/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware", that's a empty
directory for me, so maybe that's the problem...

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

ipw2100: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Driver, 0.53
ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
ipw2100: 0000:02:02.0: Detected at mem: 0xC0214000-0xC0214FFF ->
d0865000, irq: 11
eth1: Firmware 'ipw2100-1.2.fw' not available or load failed.
eth1: ipw2100_get_firmware failed: -2


> 2. Make sure you have hotplug installed...
I am sure. xD!
> 3. Probably hotplug with ipw2100 and that version (Probably Sid, is b0rked?)
> 4. kernel-image-2.6.10?
Yes, is the first time I run Ubuntu, so I don't know very much how to
manage it... Can I download a kernel image with the modules I am using
activated? Or have I to download a kernel image and then begin to
activate each module as a new kernel?
> 
> - Alejandro
Thank you very much!!