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Originally posted by: Egika
I tried your knoppix solution and encountered the following problem:

while compiling the driver, my notebook seems to get stuck... It continously accesses the CD-ROM drive and gets hardly usable...
What can this be? I waited for an hour or so to let it finish, but it obviously won't...

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I'm not really going to be a lot of help, I'm afraid. Really new to linux myself.
Are you making the kernel or the ipw2200 driver? Making the full kernel will take ages. For some reason only the first few steps are necessary, so I just press CTRL-C after a page or so, then move on to make the ipw2200 driver. Perhaps someone who knows what they are doing (linux build wise) would be more help.

What laptop do you have, how much RAM? I have an IBM T40 with 1GB - remember the entire writable file system is on the RAM disk, so perhaps not enough RAM????
Really building the kernel from the liveCD boot isn't the way we should be doing it, but I can't do a full linux install.
I wonder if it is perhaps it is possible for me to work out how to build the binary and upload it somewhere for you???

Again I say, please be really careful if you are writing to your EEPROM. If you screw your card there's no one but yourself to blame. Sorry!

Edited: 05/14/2005 at 07:10 AM by pcbbc

Okay, hopefully this will help you all out a bit. I have built the driver using KNOPPIX_V3.8.1-2005-04-08-E on my T40 and uploaded it. Now all you should need to do is:
#mkdir /usr/tmp
#cd /usr/tmp
#wget http://www.geocities.com/sonyirclib/ipw2200.tar.gz
#tar xvzf ipw2200.tar.gz
#cd ipw2200-1.0.3
#sh unload
#sh load

I think that should work?

I have also added code to the patch to auto calculate and update the EEPROM checksum if you write to offsets 0x42-0xff. Note that you can still write to 0x40/0x41 to change the checksum manually, but if you do, and the checksum is incorrect, the card will not boot and you willl be in a right mess. Suggest you leave calculating and writing checksums to the code!

Please do not blame me if you damage your 2200BG card, or it stops working alltogether. You do this entirely at your own risk.
Changing the PCI subsystem should be fairly safe, as long as you do it right. Change anything else is risky. So far I've been lucky.

Just wondering if anyone has gotten any further trying to get the wifi LED working.

Thanks

I use patched ver. 3.71 and it works fine.
But to be honest - currently I prefer Intel PROset/Wireless software.

Michal

I found something dealing with Toshiba laptops but it may work for you IBM gang:

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Toshiba phone support has recommended this hack to get the LED and RF Kill switch working:
* Cover pins 11 and 13 on your mini-pci wireless card (even pins are on the bottom side, the odd are on the top. For orientation, the "top" of the card is where you plug the two antenna in.)
* While facing the "top" of the card count to pin 11 and 13. (from the "cut" in the card over, don't forget to count the lone pin as well "1,2") cover both pins 11 and 13 with finger nail polish. Let it dry, replace the card, start your laptop, and you should be able to configure it from there.

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Hope this helps...

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I did. I tried finger nail polish and adhesive tape but LED still doesn't light on my R40 ;-(.
Greetings.

I finally got it working, by using a different laptop and knoppix 3.8. A intel 2200bg mini-pci in my HPNC4000

Here's how:

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First off if you don't have linux installed you will need to go to www.knoppix.org and download KNOPPIX_V3.8.2-2005-05-05-EN.iso, then burn the cd

You need to have the card install during the boot sequence so, have your laptop open and bootup, when you see the boot:_ line insert the card then press enter. Knoppix will autodetect the card & the bios wont complain.

Once knoppix has booted:

Click on the penguin on the taskbar and select "Root Shell", then the following command (from now on any line that begins with a # is a command to be typed at the Root prompt:
#iwconfig
You will get a list of ethernet adapters, eth0, eth1 etc. The wireless one should be quite obvious from the text displayed after it with all the wireless parameters!
#ethtool -e ethX
Obviously replace the 'X' with the index of your wireless card you found above.
You will get a hex dump of the 256 bytes of EEPROM data.
Note: There is nothing dangerous in the above steps at all.

If you want to writing to your EEPROM (You can seriously screw your card up so be careful ):

#mkdir /usr/tmp
#cd /usr/tmp
#wget http://www.geocities.com/sonyirclib/ipw2200.tar.gz
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N.B. This file has already been patched to allow writing to the eeprom

#tar xvzf ipw2200.tar.gz
#cd ipw2200-1.0.3
#sh unload
#sh load

Now all that you need to do is write to the eeprom. If your card is from Europe:

#ethtool -E eth0 magic 0x2200 offset 0x8 value 0xf6
#ethtool -E eth0 magic 0x2200 offset 0x9 value 0x12
#ethtool -E eth0 magic 0x2200 offset 0xa value 0x3c
#ethtool -E eth0 magic 0x2200 offset 0xb value 0x10

If it is from the US:

ethtool -E eth0 magic 0x2200 offset 0x8 value 0xf5
ethtool -E eth0 magic 0x2200 offset 0x9 value 0x12
ethtool -E eth0 magic 0x2200 offset 0xa value 0x3c
ethtool -E eth0 magic 0x2200 offset 0xb value 0x10

N.B. the -E must be uppercase for writing to work.

Now reboot your computer and you should no longer get the error 104...

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