Raymond,

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Raymond Rusk wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> To get the ipw2200 driver included with the 2.6.9-5.0.5.EL kernel to 
> work on my Dell Latitude D800 laptop, I found that I needed to 
> download and install into /lib/firmware the following files:
> 
> ipw2200_boot.fw
> ipw2200_bss.fw
> ipw2200_ibss.fw
> ipw2200_ucode.fw
> 
> These files are located at 
> http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php.
> 
> Are these files not included in the SL 4.0 distribution for licensing 
> reasons?  The wireless driver can't work without them so it would be 
> much more convenient to have them included with the SL 4.0 
> distribution.

I suspect so.  I read the license and since you have to approve it 
before installing and since there is no way to do that with the current 
setup I assume it was not included because of this license.

> 
> Regards,
> Raymond
> 
> PS:  SL 4.0 works very nicely on the Dell D800.  For setting up X on 
> the 1920x1200 resolution WUXGA LCD display, I found the information at 
> http://techsounds.orgdotorg.org/linux/d800/ very useful.  Since I am 
> not particularly concerned with high performance 3D rendering, I have 
> been using the X server included with SL 4.0 rather than the drivers 
> at nVIDIA's web site.
> 
> 

Thanks for this update.

-Connie Sieh