slackware 10.1 can't seem to find my wireless card
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slackware 10.1 can't seem to find my wireless card
I've installed Slackware 10.1 with the 2.6.11 kernel on my Fujitsu-Siemens AMILO Pro2020, and I'm struggling to get the wireless card up and running. I've loaded the ipw2200 driver, but I don't know how to get the machine to recognise the device. Running iwconfig gives me:
lo no wireless extensions
eth0 no wireless extensions
Any ideas? (my linux skills are somewhat primitive, so please be gentle...)
I had a look at the tutorial, but it seems to assume that the card is already recognised by the system. I used modprobe to load the ipw2200 driver, what do you mean by "modprobe the card"?
Apologies, I meant modprobe ipw2200, just that i seem to be losing the ability to type in English
In addition to the Tutorial entry, I also found this: http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/INSTALL which give full install instructions. And other files and instructions can be found here: http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/ - I guess that you have already found these, but I include them just in case.
If you are using the stock Slackware kernel, you may need to recompile to add in the necessary modules.
For some reason the name "eth1" has been given to the wireless device. I don't know if this has any significance. iwconfig allows me to set some parameters, such as ESSID, but it won't let me assign a WEP key and get the device up and running.
Yea thats no big deal my onrinco card is eth1 as well, not sure why it wont let you do a WEP key, what kind of drivers are you using, or was the card picked up automatically by Slackware. If you had to install drivers you might want to look at the driver documentation or website!
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