IPW2100

[paul tsai <paultsai@gmail.com>]

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.

-- 
Paul

Email - paultsai@gmail.com

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