Hi. I was building a static kernel image for my hardware (thinkpad T40). By static I mean no dynamic loading of modules, so basically I want to statically put support for all the devices on this laptop and do away with module loading and intird stuff etc. I managed to do that to a a large extent, except that ipw2100 wireless pci card presents its own problems. At boot time it waits for firmware download and cannot find the files (I think it is because filesystem is not yet mounted). This is the message: ipw2100 0000:02:02.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 ipw2100: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection ipw2100 0000:02:02.0: firmware: requesting ipw2100-1.3.fw 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. So my question is how shall I get the firmware files loaded as part of the kernel ? If I use regular kernel that was shipped with debian 4.0 eveything works fine and also I can see firmware files in /lib/firmware directory. thanks. george -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
