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Topic: is ipw2100 for centrino working on 0.8.3?

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subarus

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Posted: Oct. 30 2004,02:10

cant wait for the download to complete to checkit out

williahow

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Posted: 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

subarus

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Posted: 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 ?

subarus

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Posted: 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!

Gummimann

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Posted: 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

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