Networking :: Thinkpad T40 Intel Pro 2100 wireless card

I am having an issue getting my onboard wireless card to get detected and enabled when running DSL.

I read that DSL is built from Knoppix. When I try Knoppix 3.4 on my T40, my card gets detected and I can configure it and get on the network. When I try with the latest DSL, my wireless card does not get detected.

Anybody know why this is the case ?

ta!

yeah, John forgot to put the firmware for the ipw2100.o module into DSL. you can get it yourself from the project's sourceforge page.

ipw2100.sourceforge.net if i remember right (slow conn today or i'd check)

hopefully, it will be in the next release.

Or if you already have a copy of a "working" version of knoppix 3.4 you can just copy that file over from the knoppix CD to your DSL system.

If you are a livecd/poormans/frugal user it would not be too difficult to create a tiny ipw2100.dsl extension that contains this file and places it in the right spot.

You would then probably need to either manually install the driver (sudo modprobe ipw2100 , or sudo insmod ipw2100) and then run one of the newtork config scripts, or you could try and re-run the knoppix autodetect script and see if it works correctly the second time around. Something like sudo /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig

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