[ale] Intel wireless driver with suse 10.1

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Keith Hopkins (ALE) wrote:
> 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.

There were major problems with 10.1 and update.  The proper solution is 
to add a new source, then do update.  You have to do 3-4 updates in a 
row before you regain any sanity.

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.

I've heard the same.

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Tina