[PlanetCCRMA] ipw2100 wireless and ccrma kernel

[Jamie Bullock]

Just another couple of thoughts. I am sure you have probably already
tried all of this but:

1. Is the wireless interface on your laptop definitely powered up?
(using fn+F1 or whatever).

2. Have you set the SSID in /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-
eth1? My ifcfg-eth1 looks something like this:

	# Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless 2200BG
	DEVICE=eth1	
	ONBOOT=yes
	BOOTPROTO=dhcp
	TYPE=Wireless
	ESSID=MySSID

(The SSID is case sensitive).

3. If you have WEP enabled, it is probably worth disabling it on your
access point until you have diagnosed the problem.

4. For diagnostic purposes, it might also be worth modifying ifcfg-eth0,
so that ONBOOT=no. This will help rule out a 'conflict' between the two
interfaces.

Jamie


On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 17:54 -0400, Ken Schutte wrote:
> Thanks for the replies.  I tried creating /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/ and
> copying the firmware in there.  (I used /lib/firmware because my
> /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent defined FIRMWARE_DIR=/lib/firmware), and
> rebooted, and still no luck.
> 
> Here are some commands and outputs:
> # /sbin/modprobe ipw2100
> # /sbin/lsmod | grep ipw
> ipw2100               153156  0
> ieee80211              41028  1 ipw2100
> ieee80211_crypt         7940  2 ipw2100,ieee80211
> # grep ipw /var/log/messages
> Jun  6 17:04:47 localhost kernel: ipw2100: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100
> Network Driver, 1.1.0
> Jun  6 17:04:47 localhost kernel: ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel
> Corporation
> # /sbin/ifup eth1
> ipw2100 device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.
> 
> I have "alias eth1 ipw2100" in /etc/modules.conf
> 
> I also have the following files:
> $ find /etc/ -name '*eth1'
> /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth1
> /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-eth1
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
> 
> All of which contain:
> DEVICE=eth1
> ONBOOT=yes
> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> TYPE=Wireless
> 
> This is an IBM Thinkpad X40 with FC3.  rpm -q shows that I have:
> wireless-tools-27-2.2.0.fc3
> hotplug-2004_04_01-8.1
> I've been searching google with no luck on things to try, it's tough 
> because I can't seem to find any error messages to work from, eth1 just 
> does not show up.  Thanks.
> 
> Ken
> 
>