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Wireless LED on T42, Mandrake 10.1, Intel 2200BG
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 5:55 am
by puco
Hi
I have a problem with wireless, I can't seem to turn it on. The wireless LED always stays off. Is there some package/script to turn the wireless on. I'm using the ipw2200 driver
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 7:31 am
by level
Here is something that might help (it also deals with ipw2200)
http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/faq.php#qa_1_2
It would be easier to help you if you gave more information, such as, what you've already tried, error messages, etc.
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 10:27 am
by Guest
I tried ibm_apci, but there is nothing concerning WLAN, then I tried rf_switch, without any success. I also tried all the stuff in wireless tools (iwconfig eth1 power off = turn off power management), echo 0 > rf_kill in /sys.../ipw2200.
Also I cannot compile ipw2200 (v0.12) with encryption, but I think that is becasue I havn't somethink compiled in kernel (although I have everytihnig the INSTALL file of ipw2200 mentions and everything that is on web). The problem is that, when compiling I don't have CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPTO defined and then bunch of structures are not declared and I get many C errors. And I don't know how to define that (or where can I be compiled). I understand that ieee80211 is part of the ipw2200 and not kernel, so I don't need to recompile kernel. Or am I wrong?
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 11:58 am
by level
They just added WEP support in the 0.12 version, so there is probably some bugs to work out.
You also need to use the 2.6 kernel, as it won't work with 2.4. I'm not familar with Mandrake so I don't know what kernel you are using.
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 2:01 pm
by puco
AKAIK WEP was added before 0.7, they are now adding WPA and now is in testing
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 2:34 pm
by level
They just added WPA today in 0.13
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 3:26 pm
by dodik
Try using ndiswrapper. It works fine for me. See
http://www.stanford.edu/~sanjiv/thinkpad/thinkpad.html.
And don't trust the led on linux, it's working only if you compile ipw2200 with a special option and I didn't manage to power on the led with ndiswrapper even if my wlan is up.
Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 2:06 am
by puco
Ok a miracle has happened, the wlan is running the wireless LED is up. Thank you all. I don't know what happened, but after one restert I started running. I didn't install any other packages except ipw2200. The only problem I now have is, that I don't have any encryption compiled into the driver.
I also tried the new 0.13 version, but it gives me the same errors.