Slitaz does not recognize my built-in wireless (Intel PRO-Wireless 2200BG).

Do I need to 'install' drivers? If so, where obtain, how install?

pascal,

thanks. tell me if my understanding is correct:

task completed: # get-ipw2200-firmware

to retain the wireless firmware, is remastering required? Tazlito LiveCD, yes?


also;

when slitaz boots, it asks about language, keymap and configurex options. anyway to save these options an avoid re-entering every boot?

any idea on how to install cups-pdf printer?

thanks again

pascal,

tried 3 times to get the firmware; no success

failed at SIOCGIFINDEX each time

thoughts/ideas?

Hi,

Can you try:
# modprobe ipw2200 hwcrypt=0

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=26623&page=52

-pascal

pascal,

read through the ubuntu forum posting; the problem is identical to mine

found Intel's Linux driver site ...

Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2915ABG Driver for Linux* 1.2.0 (ipw2200_linux_1_2_0.tgz)
url: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/download.aspx?url=/11780/eng/ipw2200_linux_1_2_0.tgz&DwnldId=11780&lang=eng

how do you unpack the tgz file and get the driver into slitaz?

Is that file actually a .tar.gz archive?

seawolf,
new to this stuff
here's the filename: ipw2200_linux_1_2_0.tgz

Sorry, my head wasn't working properly. Taken from gzip.org:
"Files with extension tar.gz or .tgz are tar files compressed with gzip."

Thus, you need to use gzip to de-compress it, then tar to expand the archive. So, your command would be:
tar -xf ipw2200_linux_1_2_0.tgz --gunzip

This tells tar to exract files from the archive (-x) but use GUnZip first. Inside there are some readme files, and another .tgz. Use:
tar -xf ipw2200-1.2.0.tgz --gunzip

for that one. Inside there are the instructions to build the kernel module.

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Before you do though, you may want to wait to see if anyone else has a better method to get the functionality you want.

thanks,
started a discussion, seems like 'slitaz pros' respond; completely new to this stuff, kernel module is well outside my competency
slitaz does not recognize my laptop's built in wireless; just trying to figure out how to get it working
open to any ideas on howto "see if anyone else has a better method to get the functionality you want"