Brief wireless config tutorial please - Knoppix.net. Ext2 IFS For Windows. Using Option (Vodafone) 3G PCMCI card in Ubuntu PowerPC. Ipw2200. The Ipw2200 is the Linux driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Mini-PCI Adapter and Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Mini-PCI Adapter found in Centrino laptops. This driver only works on 2.6.x kernels (2.6.4 or newer). Starting with kernels 2.6.14 the driver is included in kernel. Make sure you have installed the firmware! The ipw2200 documentation will tell you where to find these firmware files and where to install those.
Included in mainline Linux kernels, tracking the SourceForge version with about 6 months delay. Packages Fedora Packages(1): Fedora Core includes the ipw2200-drivers in FC3 (with updates) and FC4. Status In development, usable, WEP 128bit encryption works, WPA and WPA2 work with drivers >= 1.0.2 using wpa_supplicant, monitor/rfmon is supported as with version >= 1.0.6.
The ipw2200 driver up to version 1.0.6 (in combination with some newer kernels) had a problem getting DHCP leases (it turned out to be a bug in the broadcasting code). Latest stable versions: Installation # make.