[PlanetCCRMA] intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG with planetedge kernels

[Peter Lutek]

On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 18:19, Peter Lutek wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 16:30, Steve Harris wrote:
> > > > however, attempts to bring up eth1 (which is the ipw2200) either during
> > > > boot or subsequently (in system-config-network) yield an "ipw2200 device
> > > > does not seem to be present, delaying initialization" error message.
> > 
> > I get this with the ipw2100 and 2.6 lowlat kernels, unless I do
> > 
> > rmmod ipw2100
> > <wait a few seconds>
> > modprobe ipw2100
> > 
> > Hope that helps.
> 
> wow..... doing that, along with matthew's changes to  
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 brings up eth1 !

i put the rmmod and modprobe, with a sleep in between, in
/etc/rc.d/rc.local -- now i've got wireless automatically after boot.

it's a kludge, and the WEP thing still bugs me, but it does work!

thanks very much, steve and matthew! hope someone else has benefited too
from all this bandwidth usage!

best-
-p