Readers,
An old portable computer has been installed with archlinux via a CD and was used successfully with ethernet cable internet connection. Now, cable connection is no longer available and it became necessary that various wireless software was not installed.
Firmware (ipw2100 for intel wireless pro) was copied from usb memory to a /usr/local/ directory.
After trying the command 'make', an error was reported that some wireless software (ieee802 I think?).
Are there a set of wireless functionality tools that can be downloaded to a usb flash memory device, then installed onto this old computer?
Firmware (ipw2100 for intel wireless pro) was copied from usb memory to
a /usr/local/ directory.
Firmware for the iwp2100 should be included with the linux kernel since some 2.6 version please check lspci -vnn if the module gets loaded
Are there a set of wireless functionality tools that can be downloaded to a usb flash
memory device, then installed onto this >old computer?
you could download all the packages needed ( most times iw and wpa_supplicant and their dependencies) and install them with pacman -U
The wiki has a great page on installing Wifi on Arch https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_network_configuration
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