[PlanetCCRMA] ipw2100 wireless and ccrma kernel

Steve Harris S.W.Harris@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Jun 6 02:13:02 2005


> On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 13:52 -0400, Ken Schutte wrote:
> > Does anyone have ipw2100 module working with the
> > 2.6.10-2.1.ll.rhfc3.ccrma kernel?  I've been trying to get this to work
> > for a while but I'm totally stuck.  I've compiled it and put the
> > firmware in /lib/firmware, and when I /sbin/modprobe ipw2100, I get:
> > ipw2100: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Driver, 1.1.0
> > ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
> > 
> > in dmesg.  But, when I try '/sbin/ifup eth1', I get "ipw2100 device eth1 
> > does not seem to be present, delaying initialization."
> > 
> > Do I have to rebuild the kernel?  Any advice would be appreciated.

You dont have to rebuild the kernel, but try rebooting. For some reason
mine does that after I've suspended. It's /really/ anoying.

- Steve