Re: Wireless on Thinkpad X31 [SOLVED]
Thanks Greg.
Putting the firmware files in /lib/firmware solved my problem. I think
is because it is proprietary content.
Antonio
Greg Madden wrote:
> 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.
>
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António Rafael C. Paiva
Graduate student
Computational NeuroEngineering Laboratory
Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611
WWW: arpaiva.webhop.net
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