Re: IPW2100

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf <riteshsarraf@users.sourceforge.net>]

paul tsai wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I´ve been trying out debian again after a brief period of not using it
> for a while and for some reason, things definitely seem broken in
> sarge, but I´m sure everyone will say it´s me.
> 
> I used to remember that the network config scripts were in
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.  When were they changed to
> /etc/network?  In any case I ran into a couple of issues, but the one
> that´s making me upset that I for the life of me cannot figure out how
> to setup my wireless in debian (it works easily in other  distros).
> 
> I have a Intel 2100 and I´m using Sarge.  So I installed the source
> through sarge and followed the directions in /usr/share/doc/ipw2100,
> untarring the files necessary and running module assistant which comes
> back with no errors.  So I then go do the firmware and I think that´s
> good too.  so reboot, and I dmesg and I see that the modules are
> loading (BTW I did have the wireless support in my kernel enabled),
> but for the life of me I cannot get it to assign it to a device like
> wlan0.  Anytime I do anything that tries to setup the network I get a
> device not found etc.  Now I´m assigning it an alias in both
> modutils/alias and modprobe.d/alias and putting ipw2100 in the modules
> files.  Either I´m missing something or something is broken.  Please
> help.  I haven even began to try to setup the network connections.
> 

As soon as the firmware and modules for ipw2100 is loaded it get an ethernet
device name attached to it. Something like ethX. I've been using it well
for a couple of months now.

rrs
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