is ipw2100 for centrino working on 0.8.3?

Forum: Networking
Topic: is ipw2100 for centrino working on 0.8.3?
started by: subarus

Posted by subarus on Oct. 30 2004,02:10

cant wait for the download to complete to checkit out

Posted by williahow on Nov. 13 2004,13:32

Working ipw2100 on DSL 0.8.3, running from RAM on a Sony PCG-TR1MP, connecting to a D-Link DL-614+ WAP/Router

1. Get the binary firmware image files for ipw2100 from < http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/ >

Use "Versions between v0.44 and 0.49: v0.44-0.49 firmware", filename 96377_96377.zip
This zip contains ipw2100-1.1-i.fw, ipw2100-1.1-p.fw, ipw2100-1.1.fw
(and a license to read...)

Unpack these to your directory of choice (mnt/sda1/ipw2100 in the example below)

2. You also need a script called firmware.agent for hotplug to work correctly.

I used < http://prism54.org/~hvr/firmware.agent >

Save this file e.g. to /mnt/sda1/ipw2100 and make it executable (chmod 755)

3. Invoke the following commands as supervisor to bring up the port (after using dsl-dpkg to make the appropriate directories writeable)

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mkdir /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware
cp /mnt/sda1/ipw2100/ipw2100-1* /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware
cp /mnt/sda1/ipw2100/firmware.agent /etc/hotplug
modprobe ipw2100
iwconfig eth1 power on
iwconfig eth1 essid whatever
ifconfig eth1 up
pump -i eth1

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more command options (e.g. modprobe ipw2100 if_name=wlan%d can be found at < http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/README.ipw2100 >

Posted by subarus on Nov. 14 2004,05:23

I got the following error messages when doing modprobe; .../ipw2100.o: init_module: No such device

I tried other modprobe options like modprobe ipw2100 if_name=eth0 .... same problem

When you said 'after using dsl-dpkg to make the appropriate directory writable' you mean install dsl-dpkg ?
Only after I installed dsl-dpkg I was able to write to the directories.

doesnt look like hotplug is working for me. are the firmware and firmware agent directories correct for livecd ?

Posted by subarus on Nov. 14 2004,08:26

SUCCESSFUL !!!!

The problem was my firmware.agent file has hidden ^M character as end of line (dos format) and hotplug dont like this.

Thanks so much for the instructions.

DSL is my OS of choice now!

Posted by Gummimann on Jan. 24 2005,18:08

Thnx!
Works great, but the link to firmware.agent doesn`t work so here is a posting:
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....91;st=0 >