Re: Intel 2100 wireless firmware (ipw2100-1.3.fw) for Lenny installation

[Marco Vaschetto <m.vaschetto@snservice.net>]

Mark ha scritto:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to install the firmware for an Intel ipw2100 wifi card on 
> a Dell Latitude D800 laptop (the driver is supported in the Lenny 
> kernel, just not the firmware).  According to this page 
> http://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200 (note bold text by Steve McIntyre) the 
> Debian installer should be able to read the tarball file during the 
> installation; I tried last night but the installer needs the .fw file 
> not the tar.gz file.  Every link I've tried, including this one 
> http://packages.debian.org/lenny/firmware-ipw2x00 is either a tar.gz 
> or .deb file.  I can't seem to find a download for .fw...any ideas or 
> help out there?  I suppose I can install the firmware after getting 
> Lenny installed by adding "contrib non-free" to /apt/sources.list, but 
> since the installer prompts for "ipw2100-1.3.fw" file during 
> installation, I'd like to get it installed at that time.
>
> Thanks in advance for any ideas.
>
> Mark
do you have try to unpack the tar ball? you download?

if you don't have any machine whit Linux you can use 7zip on windows

for unpack the package *.tar.gz if not finish the Lenny installation 
giust "apt-get install firmware-ipw2x00" and load the appropiate modules.

good by