Re: test ipw2100 / ipw2200 firmware
On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 19:08:43 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 12:13 +0100, didier gaumet wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just tested your ipw2200 firmware on my laptop (Dell Inspiron 1300,
> > Debian testing=Lenny):
> > - removed existing firmware in /lib/firmware
> > - halted
> > - boot, installed ipw2200 firmware package
> > - reboot
> > - firmware loaded, connection OK.
>
> Thank you for testing it. I hope someone will be able to test ipw2100 too.
>
> BTW, If someone can try Lenny's Debian Installer: 1. Does it prompt for
> the license and 2. Does it reconizes the firmware?
[ Thanks for sending me the signed checksums again off-list. ]
I installed the ipw2100 firmware package on my Asus M2400N (after
removing the firmware files that I had copied manually) and the wireless
network came up without problems. I run Sid on this computer, but I hope
that right now Sid and Lenny are similar enough so that this test is
still useful for you.
I also tried the firmware packages with a daily build of the Debian
Lenny installer (USB stick image plus i386 businesscard ISO plus the two
firmware packages). I had two test systems: My Asus for the ipw2100 and
an Acer of a colleague for the ipw2200. (The Acer had a complete hard
disk crash yesterday, so its owner had no problems loaning it to me for
this experiment.) In both cases the installer detected the wireless
device correctly, found the firmware package and brought up the network
successfully (obtaining an IP address via DHCP, setting the clock with
NTP and downloading the Packages file from the selected mirror).
However, I was not asked to accept the license when the firmware was
installed. I aborted the installer at the "partition hard drives" stage,
so maybe the license dialog would have come up later.
Thank you for preparing these handy packages; let me know if you want me
to test anything else.
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