John Green wrote:
Hi,
I still cannot make my Intel wireless card work under
kernel 2.6.14. Wireless works fine with 2.6.12.6, but not
with 2.6.13.x or 2.6.14.
I have a Dell Inspiron 510m with built-in wireless, for which
the ipw2100 driver is appropriate. I have followed the advice
in the Wiki for ipw2100-with-2.6.14 and taken some extra steps,
but still nothing.
Here are the relevant outputs from dmesg.
2.6.14 (fails)
--------------
ipw2100: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection
eth0 (WE) : Driver using old /proc/net/wireless support, please fix driver !
###### How do I fix the driver in question? ######
Not important...it's just a note for the developers. I get the same
warning (again, ipw2200), and it works fine.
I noticed that the version in the kernel is the 'stable' .0 version,
while the one you are using with 2.6.12.6 is a .2 'unstable' version.
It might be interesting to try merging the 1.1.0 version of the package
with 2.6.12.6, and see if you have the same issue. That would tell you
if it is a driver version or kernel change that is causing the problem.
I have already run "emerge -C ipw2100" to remove that Gentoo
package, which is no longer needed with kernel 2.6.14. How
does wireless still work under 2.6.12.6 without that package?
Sounds like removing the package didn't remove the compiled kernel
modules from /lib/modules/2.6.12.6. Both unusual and lucky!
Is the warning about versions 19 and 17 significant? It seems
to come from iwconfig, which is part of wireless-tools. I have
version 27-r1 of that package, which is the latest available.
28_pre10 is available for ~x86. Try:
echo "net-wireless/wireless-tools ~x86" >>/etc/portage/package.keywords
emerge -Dv wireless-tools
Also, there are now versions of the ieee80211 and ipw2100 packages that
will merge with 2.6.14. They are also masked ~x86, so you will need to
do the same updates to package.keywords:
echo "net-wireless/ieee80211 ~x86" >>/etc/portage/package.keywords
echo "net-wireless/ipw2100 ~x86" >>/etc/portage/package.keywords
This should give you the latest 1.1.3 version of the driver. If it
still won't work with 2.6.14, I suggest subscribing and posting to the
devel list at:
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipw2100-devel
HTH,
-Richard
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