[26633] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.4.16: ipw2100
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Mon Sep 26 13:17:07 2005
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From: William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:15:38 -0400
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
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Actually, you need ipw2200-firmware-2.2.1.noarch.rpm from
rhel-4-updates/RPMS/ipw2200-firmware-2.2-1.noarch.rpm
for the current kernel. If you attempt to install an earlier one, you
get a dependency failure because the earlier one matches an earlier
kernel.
-wdc
"Like my father before me, I shall remain 5 years old till the day I
die!"
On Sep 26, 2005, at 1:04 PM, Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 15:31 -0400, Joe Foley wrote:
>> The ipw2100 kernel module is installed, but the firmware isn't. This
>> causes the driver to be effectively useless.
>
> Just install ipw2100-firmware-1.3-1.noarch.rpm
> from /afs/athena.mit.edu/system/rhlinux/rhel-4/RedHat/RPMS. I've
> already received a request to add the ipw2200-formware RPM to the next
> patch release (after 9.4.18), so I'll add them both then.
>
