Slackware, 2200, and missing device

fincher69 · 09-10-2006, 08:29 PM

I've looked through a bunch of threads but can't find the info I need. I am working to get my wireless card on my alienware sentia working. It's an intel 2200 card I am attempted to go through the 2200 + Slackware tutorial, but still have problems.

Right now my main problem is that my computer says eth1 doesn't exist. ifconfig returns eth0 and lo and that's it. I'm sure it's a simple fix, but how do I get my wireless card to show up as eth1?

I'm hoping once this problem is fixed everything else will work, but thank you for any help and I'm sure I'll have some additional questions. :-)

baikonur · 09-11-2006, 01:59 AM

Sometimes the wireless card is named wlan0, but most of the time it is eth1. Try both in your /etc/network/interfaces file.
I had to manually add the wireless interfaces (eth1) there:

my /etc/network/interfaces

Code:

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
#auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

# The wireless adapter
#auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp

If it doesn't work, replace eth1 with wlan0 and try again. If you don't use DHCP, put 'static' and describe address and subnet. See the manual page to learn how to do it.
If that doesn't work either, please post the output of lspci, lsmod and dmesg.

Hangdog42 · 09-11-2006, 07:16 AM

The first thing to do is check the output of lsmod. If the ipw2200 module isn't listed there, you will need to install the driver and firmware. There are good instructions here at the ipw2200 site.

Alien Bob · 09-11-2006, 01:47 PM

Baikonur, this is a Slackware question. In Slackware, we do not have "/etc/network/interfaces"

Fincher69, I'm with Hangdog42 - the most probable cause of the absence of your wireless eth1 interface (the ipw2200 driver will make itself known as such) would be the fact that you did not yet download the firmware for the card and put it in /lib/firmware.

You should see an error message regarding missing firmware scrolling across the screen when the computer boots and udev probes the card and tries to "modprobe ipw2200".

Eric

baikonur · 09-12-2006, 01:49 AM

Quote:

Baikonur, this is a Slackware question. In Slackware, we do not have "/etc/network/interfaces"

Sorry. I won't interfere with you slackers discussing again. :-)