From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GERGF-0007nr-NZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 13:53:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7JDpBoP024497; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 13:51:12 GMT Received: from omta05ps.mx.bigpond.com (omta05ps.mx.bigpond.com [144.140.83.195]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7JDn9d3029134 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 13:49:10 GMT Received: from annie ([147.10.86.81]) by omta05ps.mx.bigpond.com with SMTP id <20060819134907.MVK18372.omta05ps.mx.bigpond.com@annie> for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 13:49:07 +0000 Message-ID: <000801c6c396$490df500$5500a8c0@annie> From: "Richard Watson" To: References: <000d01c6c34a$33d2ff60$5500a8c0@annie> <20060819054031.GA16968@princeton.edu> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ipw200 wireless config problem Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 23:49:26 +1000 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-Archives-Salt: 29b02d02-afa8-460e-8e07-0304dbf09ac4 X-Archives-Hash: 2adb4bb7151482a033ed4bcc5f022d5d > 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list