firmware for intel 2200 BG

sh4d0w13 · 02-28-2005, 02:43 PM

I am currently trying to install the firmware for my 2200 BG intel integrated card. The problem I am having though is that I dont know what to do with the firmware in fact. I put them in /etc/hotplug/firmware (or wherever you are supposed to for slackware) I think, but that didnt seem to work. Do I have to install the firmware or something? Or do I have to update the hotplug list? I tried to run /sbin/hotplug and that didnt work (I think it said that ocmmand did not exist). Does anybody know how to fix this?

Shade · 02-28-2005, 03:37 PM

The README in the ipw2200 package has the details of where to put the firmware. As long as hotplug is started upon boot

Code:

chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.hotplug

you should be good to go.

Firmware goes in:
/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware

--Shade

sh4d0w13 · 02-28-2005, 04:38 PM

I was wondering if you could suggest the location of the file that listst he programs that startup at boot so that I could check and see if hotlplug is started. But sicne I am quite a newbie to linux that the command you listed would add that automatically and I am jsut being stupid. Thanks again though for your helpful post.

Shade · 02-28-2005, 04:52 PM

Your startup scripts are in /etc/rc.d
Generally, they start on boot if they are executable.

ls -l /etc/rc.d/

chmod +x file
marks it globally executable.

--Shade

eeades · 02-28-2005, 06:17 PM

In slack 10.1 the firmware goes into:

/lib/firmware (took me a while to figure that one out)

I do not know the reason for the change, but it seems to be general, as it is the same in SUSE 9.2

Eric

sh4d0w13 · 02-28-2005, 06:20 PM

I understand that the location of the firmware has changed in Slack 10.1, but should I have to modify any part fo the driver to know that the firmware is located in this different file?