Colony CD 2

The Saltydog thesaltydog at gmail.com
Sun Sep 11 11:48:45 CDT 2005


On 9/11/05, The Saltydog <thesaltydog at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is my dmesg contents with kernel 2-6-12:
> 
> [4294715.716000] ipw2100: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Driver, 1.1.2
> [4294715.716000] ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2005 Intel Corporation
> [4294715.746000] ipw2100: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection
> [4294716.746000] ipw2100: eth1: Firmware 'ipw2100-1.3.fw' not
> available or load failed.
> [4294716.746000] ipw2100: eth1: ipw2100_get_firmware failed: -2
> [4294716.746000] ipw2100: eth1: Failed to power on the adapter.
> [4294716.746000] ipw2100: eth1: Failed to start the firmware.
> [4294716.746000] ipw2100Error calling register_netdev.
> [4294716.746000] ipw2100: probe of 0000:02:02.0 failed with error -5
> 


As you can see from above,  kernel 2.6.12 is trying to load the
firmware in eth1, while eth1 is the ethernet card and eth0 is the
wireless card. This is confirmed by mac addresses in /etc/iftab:
eth0=wireless card  eth1=ethernet card



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