[laptop-discuss] missing ipw and ipw0 interfaces

[Cecilia Hu]

It seems you are using early version of nevada(5.11, build 44 less).
If it is, you need to use ipw v0.3 which is gldv2 version. Please
download the package and install again.

If you have driver binary, a quicker way is to install it by:
#add_drv -i '"pci8086,1043"' ipw

Hope it helps,
-Cecilia

Kevin Clark Wrote:
> I have a gateway laptop with Solaris ver. 5.11 and an intel pro/wireless 2100 card. The wireless networking stopped working and so I tried un-installing and re-installing the SUNWipw package. I originally had the 0.2 version but installed the 0.5 version. The pkg installed but when I tried plumbing the interface I got an error that the ipw0 interface did not exist. I went into the /dev directory and the ipw and ipw0 links were broken so I removed them and rebooted thinking they might come back and the driver would attach. They didn't, so I removed the package and added it again. The driver loaded but didn't attach because the interfaces were still missing. I'm not sure what to do next. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm kinda new to Solaris and Unix in general. Thank you for your time.
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