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> I would really suggest installing the ipw2200 drivers separately from |
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> the kernel, i.e. emerge net-wireless/ipw2200. To do so you should |
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> reconfigure your kernel so that it has basic Wireless Lan support, but |
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> with ieee80211 and ipw2200 turned off. The ipw2200 ebuild would bring |
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> in an outside copy of ieee80211, follow the instructions that come up |
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> at the emerge to remove the in-kernel source of ieee80211 completely. |
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> And you should also be able to use the 3.0 firmware. |
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> I've used the drivers from outside of the kernel since version 0.6 and |
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> never had any problem. |
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I did as you suggested and then ran |
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# /bin/sh /usr/portage/net-wireless/ieee80211/files/remove-old |
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/usr/src/linux |
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Had to reboot and I was in business. |
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Thanks, Richard |
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