Re: ipw2200 [Wifi Driver] compile problems
chris jackson wrote:
I installed etch about a week and a half ago, and it picked up the
ipw2200 as part of the regular installation routine. All I had to do
was download the firmware (as you'll find it on the sourceforge page for
the ipw2200 driver), put it into the hotplug directory
(/usr/lib/hotplug) and bam, it worked. Of course, this is after the
system's installed, so I had to use my e100 ethernet for the actual
installation. Fiddling with the ieee80211 driver is annoying to get to
work. I'd suggest (if you aren't too far into it already) to just
reinstall the system, try to do the firmware step (granted that it's
picking up the ipw2200 in the bootup, which it should if you're doing a
2.6.12+ kernel, and since etch uses a 2.6.15 you're fine) and see if
that works a bit better. Then I just added in an entry in
/etc/network/interfaces to pick up my WEP network at load, and
everything's perfect (the network-admin tool that comes with gnome is
occasionally useful, but I've been finding it to be a bit flaky,
especially going from one network to another). Apparently there's a way
to write in different locales in /etc/network/interfaces to circumvent
network-admin completely, I haven't fiddled with it.
hope that's a bit useful to you!
chris
Hi Chris,
Yes, that's helpful thank you. I guess I need to compile the latest
kernel for Etch and check the options for ipw2200 during make
menuconfig. Also, do you know if there any options I should be checking
to get WPA and WEP support as well?
One thing stopping me upgrading my kernel (I currently have 2.6.8-16) is
this:
# apt-cache search kernel-source-2.6
# kernel-source-2.6.8 - Linux kernel source for version 2.6.8 with
Debian patches
In other words, the latest version appears to be 2.6.8 rather than
2.6.15, which you mentioned above. I'm definately following Etch
according to my sources.list:
> deb-src ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
Many thanks,
James.
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