fc3 source package

[Raghavendra Moktali]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>Am Di, den 29.03.2005 schrieb Raghavendra Moktali um 21:24:
>  
>
>>then this would leave me no option but to download elsewhere and bring 
>>it in on a cd.
>>    
>>
>
>I think so. Well, you are online, else you couldn't email. Maybe you get
>all the updates pending for your fresh FC3 install. At least get the
>update kernel fitting the ipw2100 RPMs at 
>
>http://atrpms.net/dist/fc3/ipw2100/
>
>  
>
have tried this. it gives dependancy error.

i was setting up using the freakels howto.
checked using modprobe.
there was no crc32 module on the system.


---below is the part of /var/log/dmesg
e1000: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones
Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 5.3.19-k2-NAPI
Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation.
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:01.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' 
---
module crc32 is not present
----
ipw2100: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Driver, 1.0.0
ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ipw2100: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
ipw2100: eth1: Firmware '/etc/firmware/ipw2100-1.3.fw' not available. 
See Documentation/networking/README.ipw2100
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
$ dir /etc/firmware
ipw2100-1.3.fw  ipw2100-1.3-i.fw  ipw2100-1.3-p.fw  ipw2100-LICENSE.txt
the above are links pointing as below.
/lib/firmware/ipw2100-1.3-i.fw, they are broken somewhere. have to 
figure out.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ipw2100: eth1: ipw2100_get_firmware failed: -5
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 0000:02:02.0 failed with error -5

giving up for today. have to get some sleep. will get the updates and 
source on cd and proceed further.

thanks again
raghavendra