Woah. Thats intense :) I'll try that, I'm putting a fresh install together on my laptop. Will try then....thanx.

BTW Can you show us what your script looks like, minus the 'sensitive' stuff ;) Just want an idea of what the heck I'm supposed to be

joneSi

Sure,
Here it is:
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DEVICE=eth1
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
TYPE=Wireless

modprobe ipw2100
ifconfig eth1 up

iwconfig eth1 essid MyNetwork
iwconfig eth1 key NNNN-NNNN-NN

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You may have to spell out more parameters, for you particular configuration.

I followed the INSTALL instructions (which are not slackware specific) and named this file
ifcnf-eth1 and put it in a directory called /etc/sysconfig which I think I had to create just for this file. I forget - must be the effects of old age or too much time trying to use windows before wising up and ditching it... ;)

Lemme know how you make out,
geomatt

Will give it a shot when I get some more time, maybe over the next few weeks. Got a lot going on between now and then.

Thanks,
Steve Jones

Greetings. I'm trying to set up wireless on my laptop using Slackware 10. I installed version 0.47 of the drivers from sourceforge. lsmod shows the compiled modules as loaded. Now my problem is that when I try to:

% ifconfig eth1 up

it says something like "device eth1 does not exist"

I also tried wlan0, but it doesn't exist either. I am able to go online using a Lan cable that goes into my router if I set it up as static ip. But if I:

% ifconfig eth0 (the normal ethernet cable) down

% ifconfig eth0 up

it stops working. So I'm having a hard time partly because once I go down, I can't go back up!

So problem #1 is eth1 and wlan0 don't exist, and problem #2 is i have a hard time troubleshooting because I can't go up once I go down. How can I get it to recognize eth1/wlan0?

Thanks

--atm

oh another piece of info: if I run ifconfig without any parameters, it shows lo and eth0 as the only devices.

atm,

I use a script called by /etc/rc.d/rc.local to get my wireless interface up and running. It names the device starts it up and feeds it a couple of parameters.

the script is in a file named /etc/sysconfig/ifconfig-eth1 and looks like this
*******************************

DEVICE=eth1
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
TYPE=Wireless

modprobe ipw2100
ifconfig eth1 up

iwconfig eth1 essid MyNetworkName
iwconfig eth1 key ************

***************************************************

-geomatt

Yeah, I realized a few things since I last posted in this thread.

1)I have Ipw2200, not 2100. (doh! :o )
2)The 2200 driver is very alpha (but worked better than 2100, of course).
3)I'm trying to get ndiswrapper working, with mild success.

I don't know if I should post my problems with ndiswrapper in this thread, because this is about IPW2100.

Anyhow, thanks.

I thought I better get in on this considering I have centrino and I'm currently using this forum to get 802.11b up and running. Using the Ipw2100 driver.....

I have had some success. Using Yum I have installed the driver(yum did some really funny things....but got going)

Wrote a script similar to GeoMatts and Apon boot eth1(wlan) goes up(so it seems) then when i use ifconfig I don't get anything.

ifup eth1 tells me I have no device exsists. Mind you tonight I will check the and see if the module is loaded.

So far I've noticed that centrino wireless is up on slackware and gentoo I'm running fedora core 2 and I feel its only a matter of time.

my 2 cents, Regards Matt

Success!!! I am now running Fedora Core 2 on my Dell M60 with working 802.11b (ipw2100)

After looking everywhere, it was this forum that lead to the most success.
How I did it......The RPM way.

go to Atrpms Thanks Axel Thimm for this site.
Lots of great rpms.
I used yum to install mostly everything......
Prepare yum by following these instructions yum config
We need to hack a bit because the yum config tutorial doesn't include the testing channel.
All you do is add this

run yum check-update
......after millions of years(I wise man once said dial-up is man greatest test).........
I tip is to # out the servers you don't want to contact in yum.conf, speeds thing up a little.
then...
yum install ipw2100 hostap-driver hostapd hostap-utils

If you lucky this will work for you. Unfortinately it wasn't for me.
After yum installed the wrong kernel patch and hostap would not install becuase a failed dependencie, from installing the worng kernel module....
I took to it manually downloading the correct kernel-module for ipw2100, hostap-driver and its kernel-module.

Make sure you have wireless exstensions installed.
I also manually loaded the firmware using hotplug, by following the INSTALL instructions on the topic.
Again yums rpm install of the firmware worked but I had no idea where the firmware was and whether it was loaded properly.

Bing! I rebooted and linux found the hardware configured it and it work beautifully.

The problem I found with yum was that when I would install a module, yum would pick the wrong dependencies. I could be doing something wrong though.

I hope this helps, because everybody here helped get me going. Thanks to geoMatt, whos post sent me in the right direction.

-M@

Dell M60
centrino 1.7
quadro fx go 700
40gb 5400rpm
intel PRO wireless 2100 (802.11b)
Fedora Core 2

Hey congrats!
And thanks - glad some of my newbie thrashings helped.
-geomatt