[ale] Intel wireless driver with suse 10.1

[Keith Hopkins ALE]

Tejus Parikh wrote:
> Hey alers,
> 
> I just reinstalled suse 10.1 on one of my laptops and I'm having  
> trouble getting the built-in Intel wireless driver to work. Dmesg has  
> an error about they system being unable to load the firmware.  I put  
> the driver's firmware files in /lib/firmware, but it doesn't seem to  
> be able to load them from there.  Some googling suggested looking in  
> /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent or putting the files in  
> /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware, but neither of these directories exist.   
> There's no hotplug directory under sysconfig either.
> 
> I think I'm missing some of the hotplug sub-system, but I have no idea  
> where to find the missing peices.  Any help would be greatly  
> appreciated.
> 
> Thanks!
> Tejus
> 

There is something wrong with 10.1, I just never bothered figuring out what.  After I bumped up to 10.2, all my Intel wireless driver problems went away.  BTW, its well worth the time/effort going to 10.2 just for the fixes in zmd.