Intel 2100 wireless firmware (ipw2100-1.3.fw) for Lenny installation
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From: Mark on 19 Jan 2010 23:50 Oh, and if I boot to an Ubuntu Live 9.10 CD it connects no problem. What the what??
From: Arthur Machlas on 20 Jan 2010 01:00 On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Mark <mamarcac(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Oh, and if I boot to an Ubuntu Live 9.10 CD it connects no problem. What > the what?? > Hi, me again. You know, the guy who said it wasn't worth the trouble. That it's better to use aptitude after the fact. Yeah... hey. Good news is I eventually found a simple answer on google. Bad news is it was some time ago, don't remember how or where I found it. Essentially I had to clean out some config files that weren't set up properly by installing firmware during the before any parts of the system were actually installed. Best, Arthur
From: Mark on 20 Jan 2010 01:10 On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Arthur Machlas <arthur.machlas(a)gmail.com>wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Mark <mamarcac(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Oh, and if I boot to an Ubuntu Live 9.10 CD it connects no problem. What >> the what?? >> > > Hi, me again. You know, the guy who said it wasn't worth the trouble. That > it's better to use aptitude after the fact. Yeah... hey. > > Good news is I eventually found a simple answer on google. Bad news is it > was some time ago, don't remember how or where I found it. Essentially I had > to clean out some config files that weren't set up properly by installing > firmware during the before any parts of the system were actually installed. > > Best, > Arthur > Aptitude it is. I don't mind nuking the hdd and reinstalling Lenny from scratch (I have the dvd .iso downloaded). Lesson learned! (Assuming aptitude installation works!) Mark
From: Mark on 20 Jan 2010 10:10 On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Mark <mamarcac(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Arthur Machlas <arthur.machlas(a)gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Mark <mamarcac(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Oh, and if I boot to an Ubuntu Live 9.10 CD it connects no problem. What >>> the what?? >>> >> >> Hi, me again. You know, the guy who said it wasn't worth the trouble. That >> it's better to use aptitude after the fact. Yeah... hey. >> >> Good news is I eventually found a simple answer on google. Bad news is it >> was some time ago, don't remember how or where I found it. Essentially I had >> to clean out some config files that weren't set up properly by installing >> firmware during the before any parts of the system were actually installed. >> >> Best, >> Arthur >> > > Aptitude it is. I don't mind nuking the hdd and reinstalling Lenny from > scratch (I have the dvd .iso downloaded). Lesson learned! (Assuming > aptitude installation works!) > > Mark > I did a fresh install of Lenny and still the same problem persists. All wireless networks are recognized, and after being prompted for my wpa key, network manager just shows 2 gray dots (neither one turns green) and after about 30 seconds it times out. Before anyone asks, I'm copying/pasting the wpa key from a usb drive that I use on the other laptops which connect just fine, but again they have BCM wifi cards not this ipw2100 type. Any other ideas? Mark
From: Mark on 20 Jan 2010 17:10
>On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 7:03 AM, Mark <mamarcac(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > >I did a fresh install of Lenny and still the same problem persists. All > wireless networks are recognized, and after being prompted for my wpa key, > network manager just shows 2 gray dots (neither one >turns green) and after > about 30 seconds it times out. Before anyone asks, I'm copying/pasting the > wpa key from a usb drive that I use on the other laptops which connect just > fine, but again they have >BCM wifi cards not this ipw2100 type. > > > >Any other ideas? > > > >Mark > Per the page here http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/README.ipw2100, it appears wpa isn't supported yet in the latest stable firmware version. *sad face* Relevant text is posted below. Since I did "aptitude install firmware-ipw2x00" per the Debian wiki, I assume it picked the stable firmware release which is 0.14. Since there are newer versions for package "firmware-ipw2x00" since the stable release, and Ubuntu uses Unstable from Debian, which contains one of the newer versions, that must be why it works when I boot to a live Ubuntu 9.10 CD. Sid uses version 0.22 according to the Debian page. I'm not advanced enough to know what has been updated from 0.14 to 0.22 that makes it work, but the list here http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-nonfree_0.22/changeloghas lots of stuff and I assume one or more of them is related to why Ubuntu can connect to WPA, and Lenny cannot. If anything I said is wrong please correct me so I can learn! 2. Release 1.2.0 Current Supported Features ----------------------------------------------- - Managed (BSS) and Ad-Hoc (IBSS) - WEP (shared key and open) - Wireless Tools support - 802.1x Enabled (but not supported) features: - Monitor/RFMon mode - WPA/WPA2 |