Mark van Berkel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am a newbie to Astlinux and really impressed with it!
>
> I understand that the Atheros Wi-Fi is supported, but would like to get the
> Intel 2200 card working as well.
>
> The IPW2200 driver starts to load when you modprobe it and gets to the point
> where it needs to load the Intel firmware, but I am not sure where it's
> looking. I downloaded the Intel firmware and tried putting it /etc/firmware
> and /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware and /lib/firmware but it does not find it in
> any of those locations.
>
> Which folder is the IPW2200 driver looking for the firmware in?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
Mark,
Thanks!
My laptop has an Intel 2915 in it, so I have gone through this before...
From what I can remember of that process, the main impediments with
getting your 2200 to work with AstLinux will be:
1) Firmware - you already took care of that (sort of)
2) Hotplug. If I remember correctly, the firmware is actually loaded
via hotplug, which AstLinux does not currently have. Hotplug is kind of
a PIA and I'd rather not have to add it just for Intel Wireless
support... :)
It looks like it would be easy enough to do without hotplug:
http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/Documentation/firmware_class/README?v=linux-2.6.9
I'll boot 0.4.3 on my laptop and see if I can make it work somehow.
These are good cards and they deserve to be supported!
--
Kristian Kielhofner
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