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molinero

Member

From: Copenhagen/Denmark

Registered: 2004-09-19

Posts: 110

Replace ieee80211 with kernel26?

Hi all

It has been a while since I last did an Pacman -Syu and was surprised to see this message

:: Synchronizing package databases...
 current                  [################] 100%      47K    23.0K/s  00:00:02
 extra                    [################] 100%     227K    82.2K/s  00:00:02
:: Replace ieee80211 with kernel26 from "current"? [Y/n]

Is it correct?

I've searched the forum and read the news about the new kernel - but there didn't seem to be anything specific about this. If there is please point me in the right direction.
I have Arch installed on a laptop with a Intel 2100 wireless card.

Thanks

iphitus

Forum Fellow

From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: Replace ieee80211 with kernel26?

Just let it do what it needs to do

The new kernel includes ieee80211 and ipw2100 so you dont need to install them seperately now.

There have been some issues with ipw2200, but i can assure you that ipw2100 in the kernel is working near perfectly.

jerem

Member

From: France

Registered: 2005-01-15

Posts: 310

Re: Replace ieee80211 with kernel26?

ipw2100 in the kernel is working nicely.
You must also enable ieee80211 network stack, with the encryption you want ( likely WEP)

However, you have to unpack the firmware manually ( ipw2100-fw-1.3.tgz) to /lib/firmware. It is not provided by the kernel(it's not GPL).

The firmware can be found at ipw2100.sourceforge.net.

Or you can do a pacman -Sw ipw2100 and pick the firmware files ( You don't need the module).

arooaroo

Member

From: London, UK

Registered: 2005-01-13

Posts: 1,268

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Re: Replace ieee80211 with kernel26?

I have ipw2200 and the kernel upgrade worked fine for me. So, "yes", just go along with what pacman says here.

Always good to be sceptical though

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