Networking :: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B



Hi,

I have just downloaded DSL 2.1 for use with my work laptop.

I am running off a Live CD, with a USB Pen for storage. As it's a work machine I can't touch the HD (it can'r be used as it is fully encrypted)

The laptop is an IBM T41 with 2 NICs:
 1 - Intel® PRO/1000 MT Mobile Connection (wired)
 2 - Intel ® Pro/Wireless LAN 2100 2B.

(1) works fine, however when at home I'd prefer to use (2)

I boot into DSL using the following cheatcode:

Code Sample
dsl toram mydsl=sda


Once booted I have tried NDISWRAPPER, the w70n51.inf file being on my USB drive.

It fails. DMESG shows the w70n51 could not be loaded

If I try to load the IPW2100_2.4.31.dsl module nothing appears to happen, and the module IPW2100 cannot be found, but 2 scripts can be found in /ramdisk/home/dsl:

Code Sample
connect.sh
depmod.sh


(I think the names are correct.)

when run these both fail.

Any Advice?

-Ranger
All is explained in the ipw2100-k2.4.31.dsl.info file at ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/damnsmall/mydsl/testing/
Thanks....

Another case of RTFI

(Read the F* info file)

or

SUS

Stupid User Syndrome.
tempestuous, DSL-2.2 is using kernel 2.4.26. I'm not sure ipw2100-k2.4.31.dsl can be used on it. Do we need any update? Thanks  :D
I previously compiled the ipw2200 drivers against the 2.4.26 kernel, but loading this driver resulted in a full system freeze.
Using ndiswrapper, too, resulted in system freeze according to other forum members.
It's now ironic that the ipw2200 driver works great with the 2.4.31 kernel when many other wifi drivers fail.

I guess ipw2100/ipw2200 users will need to stay with DSL2.0 or 2.1.

I no longer have a DSL development environment, but someone else might want to try again.  The driver source is from http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/ and http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/ and the 2.4 backport patches are from http://dellaric.home.cern.ch/dellaric/ipw2100/ and http://dellaric.home.cern.ch/dellaric/ipw2200/
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