On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 02:44:48PM +1000, Penguin Lover Richard Watson squawked:
> Hi can anyone help me resolve this problem. I'm running
> kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.16-gentoo-r9. I've built in support for the ipw2200
> driver and installed fimrware image ipw2200-firmware-2.4 as the forums say
> the latest firmware image is not supported with my kernel version. I've got
> problems ... when I try and install. wireless-tools installs OK but no
> interface is present when running iwconfig. I get the following error on
> dmesg.
I would really suggest installing the ipw2200 drivers separately from
the kernel, i.e. emerge net-wireless/ipw2200. To do so you should
reconfigure your kernel so that it has basic Wireless Lan support, but
with ieee80211 and ipw2200 turned off. The ipw2200 ebuild would bring
in an outside copy of ieee80211, follow the instructions that come up
at the emerge to remove the in-kernel source of ieee80211 completely.
And you should also be able to use the 3.0 firmware.
I've used the drivers from outside of the kernel since version 0.6 and
never had any problem.
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