Intel(R) PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B
Forum: Networking
Topic: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B
started by: ranger24
Posted by ranger24 on Jan. 20 2006,10:40
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
Posted by tempestuous on Jan. 20 2006,13:38
All is explained in the ipw2100-k2.4.31.dsl.info file at < ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/damnsmall/mydsl/testing/ >
Posted by ranger24 on Jan. 20 2006,14:42
Thanks....Another case of RTFI
(Read the F* info file)
or
SUS
Stupid User Syndrome.
Posted by hs7sv on Feb. 09 2006,06:13
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 
Posted by tempestuous on Feb. 09 2006,12:37
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/ >