Re: Ipw2200 on Debian Etch

[Digby Tarvin <digbyt@acm.org>]

On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 03:57:05PM +0200, Marco wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> There is someone that use the ipw2200 wireless interface with Debian 
> Etch that
> can help me to install it?
> 
> Modules version?
> Modules options?
> Firmware version?
> Installation steps?
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> Marco

I am using it on Etch. Everything was included in the default installation
except for the firmware, which I obtained from 
	http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php
and installed as follows:
digbyt@fujitsu:/etc/udev/rules.d$ ls -l /lib/firmware
total 551
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   6472 2006-04-19 01:06 ipw-2.4-boot.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 168344 2006-04-19 01:06 ipw-2.4-bss.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  16334 2006-04-19 01:06 ipw-2.4-bss_ucode.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 162884 2006-04-19 01:06 ipw-2.4-ibss.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  16312 2006-04-19 01:06 ipw-2.4-ibss_ucode.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 168344 2006-04-19 01:06 ipw-2.4-sniffer.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  16344 2006-04-19 01:06 ipw-2.4-sniffer_ucode.fw

The drivers that came bundled are identified as:
digbyt@fujitsu:/etc/udev/rules.d$ dmesg|grep ipw
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, git-1.0.8
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2005 Intel Corporation
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection

It isn't 100% stable, in that it locks up occasionally. It also produces
periodic messages such as:
  ipw2200: Unknown notification: subtype=40,flags=0xa0,size=40
which may be related to the lockup problem.

Regards,
DigbyT
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