Re: IPW2100
ah, I found the issue and it seriously was a duh moment for me.
Apparently I have a ipw2200 instead of ipw2100 wireless.
Out of desperation last night I decided to try the 2200 drivers, and
this ended weeks of strife.
Thanx to all who replied and tried to help
<banging head on desk>
Later
On 4/12/05, Paul <paultsai@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was using the kernel source from sarge 2.6.8. I used
> module-assistant to install/compile it
>
> On Apr 12, 2005 1:03 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf
> <riteshsarraf@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 12 Apr 2005 8:57 am, Paul wrote:
> > > cd /usr/src
> > > tar zxvf ipw2100-source.tar.gz
> > > module-assistant a-i ipw2100
> > > modconf
> >
> > What kernel are you using ? The ones from Debian or a vanilla kernel from
> > kernel.org ?
> >
> > While building ipw2100 you need to pass the kernel headers path as an argument
> > for the kernel your are going to build.
> > Eg:
> > m-a --kernel-dir /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8-x-xx
> > or
> > m-a --kernel-dir /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8-x-xx
> >
> > You make sure that the headers/source are the same for the kernel you'll be
> > using.
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > rrs
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> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> Paul
>
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>
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> Till touch down brings me round again to find
> I'm not the man they think i am at home"
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>
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