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2006-01-06 15:39:46

2.6.15 and ipw2200

Did anybody try to use ipw2200 driver included in recent kernels?
I found out that most recent version of kernel includes this driver so I decided to switch from self-compiled 2.6.14.4 and ipw2200-source package for module to new version of kernel and driver compiled in it.
Unfortunatelly such compiled kernel can't find firmware either in /usr/local/lib/firmware nor /lib/firmware, although according to /lib/udev/hotplug.functions these directories are checked and firmware seems to be ok cause works fine with 2.6.14.4.
Is it at all possible to use this driver compiled in kernel (not as a module)?

comments (7)

Matthew R. Dempsky, 2006-01-06 17:21:24

Do you have the right version of firmware? I believe ipw2200-source is a newer version than the one included with kernel releases, and that they require different firmware versions.

fenio, 2006-01-06 17:36:32

According to Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 kernel includes 1.0.8 version of ipw2200, so the same as this from ipw2200-source.

Mind Booster Noori, 2006-01-06 18:54:08

You must to have the driver compiled as a module.

alejo, 2006-01-06 19:39:01

Hello.. I use 2.6.15 without problems in my notebook I apt-geted the kernel iamge and then I drop the firmware (version 2.4) in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware... and no problem hope to be useful

fenio, 2006-01-08 15:38:03

So why the hell there's possibility to compile it as no module :/

Jon Dowland, 2006-01-21 18:49:47

Does it work then, with no other changes, compiled as a module?

GipPasso, 2006-01-31 18:00:28

I think that the matter is that if the ipw2200 driver is compiled statially in the kernel it tryes to load the firmware before udev has been loaded. It put the 2.4 firmware in /lib/firmware and compiled the ipw2200 as a module and it works fine.