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John Green wrote: |
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>Hi, |
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>I still cannot make my Intel wireless card work under |
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>kernel 2.6.14. Wireless works fine with 2.6.12.6, but not |
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>with 2.6.13.x or 2.6.14. |
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>I have a Dell Inspiron 510m with built-in wireless, for which |
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>the ipw2100 driver is appropriate. I have followed the advice |
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>in the Wiki for ipw2100-with-2.6.14 and taken some extra steps, |
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>but still nothing. |
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>Here are the relevant outputs from dmesg. |
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>2.6.14 (fails) |
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>ipw2100: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection |
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>eth0 (WE) : Driver using old /proc/net/wireless support, please fix driver ! |
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>###### How do I fix the driver in question? ###### |
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Not important...it's just a note for the developers. I get the same |
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warning (again, ipw2200), and it works fine. |
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I noticed that the version in the kernel is the 'stable' .0 version, |
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while the one you are using with 2.6.12.6 is a .2 'unstable' version. |
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It might be interesting to try merging the 1.1.0 version of the package |
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with 2.6.12.6, and see if you have the same issue. That would tell you |
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if it is a driver version or kernel change that is causing the problem. |
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>I have already run "emerge -C ipw2100" to remove that Gentoo |
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>package, which is no longer needed with kernel 2.6.14. How |
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>does wireless still work under 2.6.12.6 without that package? |
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Sounds like removing the package didn't remove the compiled kernel |
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modules from /lib/modules/2.6.12.6. Both unusual and lucky! |
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>Is the warning about versions 19 and 17 significant? It seems |
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>to come from iwconfig, which is part of wireless-tools. I have |
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>version 27-r1 of that package, which is the latest available. |
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28_pre10 is available for ~x86. Try: |
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echo "net-wireless/wireless-tools ~x86" >>/etc/portage/package.keywords |
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emerge -Dv wireless-tools |
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Also, there are now versions of the ieee80211 and ipw2100 packages that |
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will merge with 2.6.14. They are also masked ~x86, so you will need to |
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do the same updates to package.keywords: |
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echo "net-wireless/ieee80211 ~x86" >>/etc/portage/package.keywords |
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echo "net-wireless/ipw2100 ~x86" >>/etc/portage/package.keywords |
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This should give you the latest 1.1.3 version of the driver. If it |
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still won't work with 2.6.14, I suggest subscribing and posting to the |
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devel list at: |
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http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipw2100-devel |
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HTH, |
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-Richard |
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