Yesterday, my wireless adapter wouldn’t come up. A reboot solved the problem, but it took me an hour or so to decide there is no other way.

Someone I recently met noticed I was using Linux on the Thinkpad. he said he can easily profile this kind of people. They are very technical. I guess they have to be.

Jun 17 23:40:56 localhost kernel: ipw2100: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Driver, 1.1.3
Jun 17 23:40:56 localhost kernel: ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2005 Intel Corporation
Jun 17 23:40:56 localhost kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:02:02.0
Jun 17 23:40:56 localhost kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1d.2
Jun 17 23:40:56 localhost kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1f.1
Jun 17 23:40:56 localhost kernel: ipw2100: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection
Jun 17 23:40:56 localhost kernel: ipw2100: Invalid firmware run-length of 17493
bytes
Jun 17 23:40:56 localhost kernel: ipw2100: eth1: Error loading firmware: -22
Jun 17 23:40:56 localhost kernel: ipw2100: eth1: Failed to power on the adapter.Jun 17 23:40:56 localhost kernel: ipw2100: eth1: Failed to start the firmware.
Jun 17 23:40:56 localhost kernel: ipw2100Error calling register_netdev.
Jun 17 23:40:56 localhost kernel: ipw2100: probe of 0000:02:02.0 failed with error -5