No Wifi with Custom Kernel

[Ylan Segal]

Markus Schönhaber wrote:
> Ylan Segal wrote:
> 
>>My wifi works perfectly with the stock ubuntu kernel or the 686 kernel
>>(2.6.15.23 or 2.6.15.25), but dmesg says the following when booting with
>>my custom kernel:
>>
>>[17179589.872000] agpgart: Detected an Intel 855PM Chipset.
>>[17179591.168000] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network
>>Driver, 1.1.1
>>[17179591.168000] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
>>[17179591.168000] Warning: PCI driver ipw2200 has a struct device_driver
>>shutdown method, please update!
>>[17179591.392000] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network
>>Connection
>>[17179591.780000] ipw2200: ipw2200-bss.fw request_firmware failed: Reason
>>-2 [17179591.780000] ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2
> 
> 
> By default, firmware files on Dapper (with stock kernels) belong 
> into /lib/firmware/<kernel-version>. Try to find out where your custom kernel 
> (or hotplug in combination with this kernel) expects those files and copy 
> them there.
> 

Hmm, wouldn't they be copied when installing the custom kernel? When I
upgraded to the stock kernel 2.6.15.25 and later to the 2.6.15.25 for
i686 I didn't have to copy any firmware files. I guess that was done
automatically by apg-get from the package information.

I am using make-kpkg to create the deb packages and installing those
like this:

# sudo make-kpkg clean
# sudo make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-ylan kernel-image
kernel-headers
# cd /usr/src
# sudo dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6...deb (I used actual file name here)
# sudo dpkg -i kernel-headers-2.6...deb (I used actual file name here)

Shouldn't this be enough to configure anything it needs automatically?

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