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

[Mark <mamarcac@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Mark <mamarcac@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Arthur Machlas <arthur.machlas@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Mark <mamarcac@gmail.com> wrote:

Oh, and if I boot to an Ubuntu Live 9.10 CD it connects no problem.  What the what??

Hi, me again. You know, the guy who said it wasn't worth the trouble. That it's better to use aptitude after the fact. Yeah... hey.

Good news is I eventually found a simple answer on google. Bad news is it was some time ago, don't remember how or where I found it. Essentially I had to clean out some config files that weren't set up properly by installing firmware during the before any parts of the system were actually installed.

Best,
Arthur

Aptitude it is.  I don't mind nuking the hdd and reinstalling Lenny from scratch (I have the dvd .iso downloaded).  Lesson learned!  (Assuming aptitude installation works!)

Mark

I did a fresh install of Lenny and still the same problem persists.  All wireless networks are recognized, and after being prompted for my wpa key, network manager just shows 2 gray dots (neither one turns green) and after about 30 seconds it times out.  Before anyone asks, I'm copying/pasting the wpa key from a usb drive that I use on the other laptops which connect just fine, but again they have BCM wifi cards not this ipw2100 type.

Any other ideas?

Mark