Re: [gentoo-user] ipw200 wireless config problem

["Richard Watson" <waty@bigpond.net.au>]

> 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.

I did as you suggested and then ran
# /bin/sh /usr/portage/net-wireless/ieee80211/files/remove-old
/usr/src/linux

Had to reboot and I was in business.

Thanks, Richard


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