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Hi Gary, |
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My notebook uses IPW2200 too and I had similiar problems as far as I can |
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remember. |
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Compiling the driver into the kernel did not work. So I build |
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the IPW2200 as a module. The firmware is needed in general because it |
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is used by the driver. |
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If you got the kernel and the module ready and have emerged the |
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firmware, just boot the new kernel and run |
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modprobe ipw2200 |
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You can check the result by watching the output of dmesg. |
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Try iwconfig to see if you have an adapter with wireless extensions. |
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If it works this way, you can add the driver module to |
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/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 |
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Best regards, |
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Peter |
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> Hi guys, |
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> |
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> I have an IBM Thinkpad T43 with the IPW2200 card. Current setup is |
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> Windows XP with VMWare Workstation 5.0.0 Gentoo is setup and everything |
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> works. I just can not get gentoo to see the wireless card. I have 2 |
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> adapters installed, one sees the LAN port but the other has no way of |
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> communicating with the IPW2200. I have built it in the kernel and |
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> emerged wireless-tools. Removing this from the kernel and emerging |
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> ipw2200-firmware does not work also. iwconfig sees nothing. Any thoughts |
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> off the top of your heads? |
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> Kindest Regards |
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> |
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> Gary |
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