Hi. I recently, briefly, had my ipw2100 (Centrino) wireless network adapter working under Fedora Core 2. Now it's not working and I'm not sure why; reinstalling doesn't seem to help. I followed the instructions at http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/ which are basically just a few steps: 1) 'make' and 'make install' in the extracted driver directory; 2) extract the firmware and copy it to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware; 3) write a file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1; 4) run modprobe ipw2100 ifup eth1 This worked the first time I tried it, and then I (stupidly!) allowed kudzu to "configure" the ipw2100 after I rebooted. Well, I just wanted to see what would happen, I guess. Now I can't get the interface to come up. I don't get any errors from the modprobe or ifup commands--but if I then run ifconfig, there is no entry for eth1. Also, system-config-network does not show the ipw2100 under "Hardware" as it used to do. dmesg shows the following interesting lines: ipw2100: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Driver, 0.60 ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation ipw2100: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1 ipw2100: eth1: Firmware 'ipw2100-1.3.fw' not available or load failed. ipw2100: eth1: ipw2100_get_firmware failed: -2 ipw2100: eth1: Failed to power on the adapter. ipw2100: eth1: Failed to start the firmware. divert: freeing divert_blk for eth1 ipw2100Error calling regiser_netdev. ipw2100: probe of 0000:01:03.0 failed with error -5 . . ipw2100: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Driver, 0.60 ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation ipw2100: eth%d: PCI alloc failed for msg buffers. ipw2100Error calilng ipw2100_queues_allocate. ipw2100: probe of 0000:01:03.0 failed with error -12 I think the first set of errors ("failed to power on the adapter") might be fixed; I checked my computer's BIOS and the wireless was turned off. The second set ("error calilng (sic) ipw2100_queues_allocate") is probably still important. Any ideas? Is there an easier way to do this? Thanks, Matt
