Re: Wireless on Thinkpad X31

[Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net>]

On Monday 08 May 2006 19:05, Antonio Rafael C. Paiva wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I acquired recently a IBM Thinkpad X31 (802.11b only), but although
> the ipw2100 driver loads I cannot get it to work.
>
> Output at /var/log/messages after re-loading the module:
> ---------------------------------------
> May  8 23:01:17 localhost kernel: ipw2100: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100
> Network Driver, 1.1.3
> May  8 23:01:17 localhost kernel: ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2005
> Intel Corporation
> May  8 23:01:17 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A]
> -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
> May  8 23:01:17 localhost kernel: ipw2100: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless
> 2100 Network Connection
> May  8 23:01:17 localhost kernel: ipw2100Error calling register_netdev.
> May  8 23:01:17 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt for device
> 0000:02:02.0 disabled
> May  8 23:01:17 localhost kernel: ipw2100: probe of 0000:02:02.0
> failed with error -5
> ---------------------------------------
>
> I'm running Debian Etch 2.6.15 "out of the box".

I had to download the firmware and install it , unless you did this 
already, you should have an error mesage somewhere about no firmware. 
This was for Etch / ipw2100.

-- 
Greg Madden