Ipw2200
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Intel PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Driver for WiFi
Linux driver for the 802.11bg and 802.11abg NICs - miniPCI cards - found in Centrino laptops. This driver only works on 2.6.x kernels (2.6.4 or newer).
The following adapters sold by IBM use these chips:
Project Homepage / Availability
http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/
Packages
- Fedora Packages(1): Fedora Core includes the ipw2200-drivers in FC3 (with updates) and FC4. You still need to grab the firmware from http://rpm.livna.org/
- Fedora Packages(2): http://www.atrpms.net/name/ipw2200/
- Mandrake 10.1: The ipw2200 driver modules are included in the stock kernel package.
- Gentoo: The driver is in the portage tree: emerge net-wireless/ipw2200 and net-wireless/ipw2200-firmware
- Debian Packages: http://packages.debian.org/ipw2200-source
Status
in development, usable, WEP 128bit encryption works, WPA does also work with drivers >= 1.0.2 (beta at the moment, use wpa_supplicant for WPA-functionality), Monitor/RFMon is supported as of 1.0.6 and firmware 2.3!
Current Version: 1.0.6
Firmware Version : 2.3
Works fine!
Additional Comments
make sure you grab the newest version and new loadable firmware as required by the driver
The driver doesnt appear to support MII interface, so any tools like automatic network configuration managers ( whereami ) that rely on mii-tool do not work.