debian laptop wirless problem

On Sunday 25 November 2007 22:21,
wrote:
> Hi,
> I have an HP zt3000 with Intel PRO Wireless 2200BG wireless cards built in.
> It has been awful to get it working in spite of instructions I found on
> the Internet.
> I followed the instructions from http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/ but
> couldn't get it working.
>
> At the moment I'm using Kubuntu on my laptop because of this wireless
> problem.
>
> Cheers,
> Dustin Johnson
> http://www.stock-market-investors.com
Morning,

1. What is the contents of your '/lib/firmware/' directory and what
does 'dmesg | grep ipw2200' give you?
2. Are you using the kernel module from apt, or did you build from source?
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Jörg-Volker Peetz (wrote):
#
# The paths where udev hotplug looks for firmware are defined in
# /lib/udev/hotplug.functions with the variable FIRMWARE_DIRS.
# In lenny I have
#
# FIRMWARE_DIRS='/lib/firmware /usr/local/lib/firmware
# /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware'

yes, probably, i wouldn't know, lenny is not stable is not debian yet :]

on etch, i have (in /lib/udev/hotplug.functions):

FIRMWARE_DIRS='/lib/firmware /usr/local/lib/firmware
/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware'

so i guess you can put it in anyone you want and/or redefine/add another
directory.

manu

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Emmanuel Revah wrote:
[...]
> hence the default etch kernel 2.6.18 already works with ipw2200, it is as
> simple as copying some .fw files into /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/
> (apparently some put it into /lib/firmware, but maybe the are not really
> using debian ?).
>
> manu.
>

The paths where udev hotplug looks for firmware are defined in
/lib/udev/hotplug.functions with the variable FIRMWARE_DIRS.
In lenny I have

FIRMWARE_DIRS='/lib/firmware /usr/local/lib/firmware /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware'

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Jörg-Volker.

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