netword card issues

[nyblueguy]

I was trying to get my wireless card configured/ installed. when I boot up I see that the system sees the card. But its not on the OS. So i installed the firware and built to drivers from the module assistant. thats was still a work in progress. But after rebooting the system now my onboard nic card isnt working right. I mean its still on but it is not responding to DHCP and getting an IP address.

does someone have a link on a how to on configuring your network card and possible and good step by step for setting up the wireless. I am running etch and kde3.52

I am a newbie so bare with me. Thanks,

[nyblueguy]

I got my card working and need to get the wireless working. I am getting "no wireless extension" so I see I need to

Enable the config option CONFIG_NET_RADIO in your kernel setup.
Recompile and reinstall this kernel.

the only problem I am getting errors when trying to run make menuconfig

make: *** No rule to make target `menuconfig'. Stop.

I am running debian 2.6.15-1-686 - what do I have to do. I was assuming somewhere in the dir i could run the menuconfig without having to install a new kernel. just make the changes / compile and install the existing one...or do things not work that way

thanks

[djhobo9]

What's the brand of your wireless card, and what chipset does it use (if you know)?

You shouldn't need to do any recompiling of the kernel. In most cases, wireless drivers (finding the right ones can be the tricky part) can be compiled separately into kernel modules and inserted.

Let us know what kind of card/chipset you have and what (if any) drivers you've downloaded.

[nyblueguy]

855 chipset on a centrino thinkpad42
the card is: Intel 802.11b/g wireless(MPCI)

I have downloaded:

ipw2200-fw-3.0 firmware
ipw2200-1.1.2 driver
wireless tools.28

thanks for your help

[abraxas]

There's official Intel support for Your card:

http://support.intel.com/support/not.../cs-006408.htm

But if I were You, I would try the corresponding sourceforge site. The developers at sourceforge have done the work on the official Intel drivers as well and maybe their dirvers are more recent than the official (stable) drivers:

http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/

But here's maybe the best option: there's an official .deb package for Your drivers:

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/ipw2200-source

just cd to the directory You downloaded it and run

# dpkg -i ipw2200-source*deb

(only if there are no other versions of this in the directory, of course )

then cd to /usr/src - there are the sourcefiles.
You'll have to compile them. Refer to the INSTALL document for details. (Usually You'll have to run "make" and "make install")

For all of the above You should have at least ieee*-something in version 1.1.11 installed. Actually I'm not quite sure if these drivers like the up-to-date 1.1.13 version... You could give it a try:

http://ieee80211.sourceforge.net/

download and compile them. Again, refer to the INSTALL document for details.

There's another thing that You could do: the 2.6.16 kernel has native support for Your card and I think the 2.6.15 should have as well... You could compile Your own kernel and activate the switch for Your card.
But I don't recommend it. As long as Your system is stable otherwise, it's better to give those modules a try. You'll shurely screw up Your first kernel just like I did

Hope this could help. If not - ask more questions!

[nyblueguy]

I have got all the hardware. when i try to run the dpkg -i ipw2200-modules-2.6.15-1-686_1.0.8-2+2.6.15-8_i386.deb it tells me i dont have the firmware installed. so i get the firmware ipw2200-fw-3.0
and cp the files to /lib/firmware

now what i seem to be going in a circle. where do i run make/ make install...and one what files?

thanks,