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LosD
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Hmmm... Try making a file called ipw2100 in /etc/modules.d/ containing this:
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alias eth1 ipw2100
options ipw2100 if_name=eth1
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And restart the computer...
Hope that helps!
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deadaim
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| Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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Nope. That didn't do it. 
Could it be the kernel I'm using? Right now, I have gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.5. Is there anything that needs to be specified in the kernel?
Should I try another? What kernel do you recommend? |
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jarealist
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| Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 10:50 am Post subject: |
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LosD Wrote:
| Quote: | | For me 0.41 either gives a kernel panic, or an oops that kills my keyboard, except ctrl-alt-delete.. |
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It even killed my control-alt-delete; plus corrupted my modprobe.conf, modprobe.devfs, modules.conf and modules.devfs files. I'm using gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.5-r1 and have support for firmware loading built into the kernel. Sony Vaio PCG-V505DX. Guess I'll wait till the next driver release. |
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marinheiro
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| Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 10:04 pm Post subject: modules fail to load |
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I just emerged ipw2100 (0.41) for the first time. Everthing seemed fine,
but
gives
| Code: | WARNING: Error inserting hostap (/lib/modules/2.6.1-gentoo/net/hostap.ko): Invalid module format
FATAL: Error inserting ipw2100 (/lib/modules/2.6.1-gentoo/net/ipw2100.ko): Invalid module format
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Any ideas? (warning, newbie - my level of understanding of all this is pretty low, and this is as likely to be me messing something up as it is to be something wrong with the driver. I have seen that if I try to emerge hostap on its own it fails totally with a mass of undeclared values in mpspec.h, but since I have no idea what hostap is, I'm guessing maybe I shouldn't even try to do that. Basically I'm just lost...
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jewps
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| Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 5:05 am Post subject: |
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When you emerge ipw2100, does it automagically generate the net.eth1 file for you? I can get it to assosiate to a AP with WEP and all working quite well but i don't know how i should assign an IP to it cause net.eth1 is not there! What should I do?
firmware loads, it even recongnises the wifi on off button which is quite neat..
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dvc5
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| Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 5:09 am Post subject: |
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| jewps wrote: | | I can get it to assosiate to a AP with WEP and all working quite well but i don't know how i should assign an IP to it cause net.eth1 is not there! What should I do? |
| Code: | ifconfig eth1 up
dhcpcd eth1 |
Assuming you've set the essid. "iwconfig eth1 essid "nameofessid"" Once you've confirmed that the device can get an IP, you can copy your net.eth0 script to net.eth1 and you're set. | Code: | | rc-update add net.eth1 default |
if you want.
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deadaim
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| Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 5:36 am Post subject: |
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| jewps wrote: | When you emerge ipw2100, does it automagically generate the net.eth1 file for you? I can get it to assosiate to a AP with WEP and all working quite well but i don't know how i should assign an IP to it cause net.eth1 is not there! What should I do?
firmware loads, it even recongnises the wifi on off button which is quite neat..
any suggestions? thanks |
| Code: | | cp /etc/init.d/net.eth0 /etc/init.d/net.eth1 |
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jewps
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| Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 6:43 am Post subject: |
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Ah that was easy! I thought emerging ipw2100 copies the rc-scripts by itself.. doh
After fooling around with iwconfig, i'm starting to wonder if i have to do a iwconfig eesid "blah" every time? cause i noticed once in a while, eth1 looses it's settings so i have to re-enter the wep keys, essid, etc.. again.
Can we use the conf.d/net drivers to specify essid's, perhaps maybe even with profile support? ie: ssid: home and ssid: work
I'm surprised WEP works pretty well even though it's listed as unstable.
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dvc5
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If you emerge wireless-tools, there's settings in /etc/conf.d/wlan.conf and wlancfg-nameofessid where you can set the essid, keys, etc. You'll need to copy the "wlancfg-default" to "wlancfg-nameofessid" for each essid you want to have custom settings for (wep key, etc.).
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jewps
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 7:53 am Post subject: |
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Wireless-tools is part of the ipw2100 package, however i can't seem to find the config files. Re-emerging wireless-tools didn't help.
hmmm |
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dvc5
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 8:07 am Post subject: |
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| jewps wrote: | Wireless-tools is part of the ipw2100 package, however i can't seem to find the config files. Re-emerging wireless-tools didn't help.
hmmm |
My bad, those config files actually come with linux-wlan-ng package I think. Therefore, since you don't use those drivers, you'll have to either make a short bash script or find another package if you want to automate activating the wireless card with a WEP.
All of the access points I use don't have WEP enabled so it just joins automatically when the machine detects a connection at boot time. I accomplished this by just copying net.eth0 to net.eth1 in /etc/init.d/.
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nadin
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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you can do a number of different things,
The way I do it is the following
I replace the net.eth1 code in/etc/init.d with
| Quote: | #!/sbin/runscript
depend() {
use hotplug pcmcia
}
start() {
ebegin "Starting wireless-lan"
/usr/bin/switchto -s
eend $? "Failed to start wireless-lan"
}
stop() {
ebegin "Stopping wireless-lan"
kill $(cat /var/run/dhcpcd-eth1.pid)
eend $? "Failed to stop wireless-lan"
}
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Then I emerged a program called quickswitch that allows you to switch between networks (wireless or wired)
Now my grub config has several entries so I just select the entry with respect to the network I want to join
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kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 vga=792 hdc=ide-cd SWITCHTO=Home
kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 vga=792 hdc=ide-cd SWITCHTO=School
kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 vga=792 hdc=ide-cd SWITCHTO=Wired
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for my home and school wireless network, and for any Wired network. Basically the SWITCHTO parameter tells quickswitch program switchto -s what network setting to use. It works prefectly for me. Then later on running switchto manually, it allows me to switch easily. It also says the wep keys if required
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svieira
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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There is a workaround if when loaded at boot time ipw2100 crashes with "ooops?" hanging the computer...
First you have to move the firmware somewhere else and reboot. The system then will startup fine...
After that do the following:
rmmod ipw2100
copy the firmware back
modprobe ipw2100
Unfortunatelly you will have to do this every time the machine boots. However writing a simple scripts that performs this workaround on boot time is easy to write... |
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jewps
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| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 9:03 am Post subject: |
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| dvc5 wrote: | | jewps wrote: | Wireless-tools is part of the ipw2100 package, however i can't seem to find the config files. Re-emerging wireless-tools didn't help.
hmmm |
My bad, those config files actually come with linux-wlan-ng package I think. Therefore, since you don't use those drivers, you'll have to either make a short bash script or find another package if you want to automate activating the wireless card with a WEP.
All of the access points I use don't have WEP enabled so it just joins automatically when the machine detects a connection at boot time. I accomplished this by just copying net.eth0 to net.eth1 in /etc/init.d/. |
No worries! Thanks for the help tho. I figured if I really need multiple WEP profiles, I could use hprofile and have ifplugd execute different parts of the net.eth1 scripts according to what hprofile senses. But right now all i did was put IWCONFIG eth1 key {$key} essid {$essid}.... since I use wireless mainly at home.
By the way, ifplugd works great with wireless, so it's a nice option if you don't always need ipw2100, hostap modules loaded.
Thansk for help everyone, really apperciate it |
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tobimat80
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| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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Hi!
Im using version 0.41. Everything works fine - except that I'm not able to start the device at boot time:
| Quote: | ipw2100: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Driver, 0.41
ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
Detected ipw2100 PCI device at 0000:02:02.0, dev: eth1, mem: 0x90000000-0x90000FFF -> e08c1000, irq: 5
eth1: Using hotplug firmware load.
eth1: Firmware not available or load failed
eth1: ipw2100_get_firmware failed: -2
eth1: Failed to power on the adapter.
eth1: Failed to start the firmware.
ipw2100: probe of 0000:02:02.0 failed with error -5
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"Hotplug firmware loading support" is build in the kernel (gentoo-dev-sources). When I load ipw2100 manually it works.
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Any ideas?
THX!
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Lupin III
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| Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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I have installed the ipw2100 ebuild, version 0.41.
If I use everything goes good and the wireless goes well.
The problem starts when I restar the system; first it can't load the ipw2100 module, and then, when hotplug starts, I get a Kernel Panic.
Obviously I have created a file, net.eth1, and added it to default with rc-update, and then added the module to modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4.
PS: the same problem with the other ebuilds!
Can someone help me?
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jewps
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| Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 10:17 am Post subject: |
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I think the problem is, you're trying to load the modules instead of using hotplug to load.. Hotplug should automatically load the modules when it senses the device, afterwards net.eth1 will start after hotplugd.
Anyone try 0.42?
it's been out for a few days |
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LostControl
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| Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 10:30 am Post subject: |
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| jewps wrote: | | Anyone try 0.42? |
Yes ! It is the version I use ! No problem ! But I do not need WEP so I don't know if there is improvements in this version !? |
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Lupin III
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| Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 12:41 pm Post subject: |
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| I've tried to remove ipw2100 from modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4 but it's the same....: I get a Kernel Panic!!! |
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lplatypus
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| Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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| jewps wrote: | | Anyone try 0.42? |
| LostControl wrote: |
Yes ! It is the version I use ! No problem ! But I do not need WEP so I don't know if there is improvements in this version !? |
I've been using 0.42 for a day with WEP and it works fine. |
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jewps
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| Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 8:48 am Post subject: |
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| Lupin III wrote: | | I've tried to remove ipw2100 from modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4 but it's the same....: I get a Kernel Panic!!! |
I really don't know what to suggest except re-emerging 0.41 and starting from scratch.. sorry
Too bad 0.42 isn't in portage yet, otherwise i'd upgrade. WEP works fine in .41 tho it is a bit buggy |
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jarealist
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| Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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Version 0.43 is available for download at:
http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/
Changes:
* HOSTAP issue in Makefile for 2.4 fix (thanks to Andreas Piesk)
* Typeo in Makefile (thanks to Eric C. Cooper)
* Improved signal quality metric (thanks to Mikolaj Kolakowski)
* Part 1 (of 2) for Monitor mode support added (thanks to Maciej Urbaniak)
* Changed aging of scan results such that if a beacon or response isn't received within 3 scan's, it is not listed in scan results.
* Added support for 802.1x EAP authentication (thanks to Pedro Ramalhais)
* Fixed 'badness in local_bh_enable' (thanks to trash on IRC for testing)
* Increased timeout for detecting the hardware coming to life; this should help those that frequently see the 'No response from Symbol - hw not alive' message (I can't find who found this fix... let me know if it was you.)
* Fixed boot time initialization failure (thanks to Benjamin Osheroff)
* Added CONFIG_IPW2100_RX_DEBUG for dumping packet contents in the event that a WEP packet's ICV fails.
Going to try it later today. |
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dyqik
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| Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Slightly off topic, but intel have started an equivalent project for the 2200BG card in the last few days. No files yet, but worth keeping an eye on. |
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stieve
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| Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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I have problem during the emerge of the ipw2100 package. The problem is that hostap-0.0.4 can't compile.
It always give met the error:
"Function src_compile, Line 79, Exitcode 2"
The last time I could install the ipw2100 package without a problem and now after a format I can't get it to work.
Hope somebody can help me. |
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LosD
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| Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 12:45 am Post subject: |
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| stieve wrote: | I have problem during the emerge of the ipw2100 package. The problem is that hostap-0.0.4 can't compile.
It always give met the error:
"Function src_compile, Line 79, Exitcode 2"
The last time I could install the ipw2100 package without a problem and now after a format I can't get it to work.
Hope somebody can help me. |
Hmmm, I don't really know about the hostap problem, but if you don't need WEP, you should be able to modify the ipw2100-0.41.ebuild:
Change the RDEPEND to:
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RDEPEND=">=sys-apps/hotplug-20030805-r2"
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and the src_compile() function to:
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src_compile() {
unset ARCH
emake KSRC=${ROOT}/usr/src/linux all || die
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And then reemerge ipw2100, it should just skip the hostap thingy and go straight to ipw2100.
I can't guarantee that it will work, or even compile, but try and see if it will... I think it'll come with an error saying "Modules for hostap-driver not found!" and some more after installation, but that can be ignored...
Oh well... Hope it works!
Dennis
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