Ipw2100
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Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Driver for WiFi
Linux driver for the 802.11b NIC - miniPCI cards - found in Centrino laptops.
The following adapter sold by IBM uses this chipset:
Project Homepage / Availability
http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/
Packages
- Fedora Packages(1): Fedora Core includes the ipw2100-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/ipw2100/
- Mandriva: The ipw2100 driver modules are included in the stock kernel package; the firmware is included in the commercial distribution or available from http://plf.zarb.org/
- Debian includes the modules in packages ipw2100-modules-2.6-486, ipw2100-modules-2.6-686, ipw2100-modules-2.6-686-bigmem, ipw2100-modules-2.6-k7 and ipw2100-modules-2.6-amd64 or the source code for them in ipw2100-source (http://packages.debian.org/ipw2100-source). You need to download the appropriate firmware version yourself from Intel. Or included in the Debian 4.0/Etch kernel.
Status
- In development but usable. Version 1.0.5 works quite well with kernel 2.6.10.
- Works very well with kernel 2.6.16-9. Only firmware needs to be copied to the appropriate directory and everything works out-of-box.
Additional Comments
Make sure to try the newest version. You will need to install the loadable binary firmware provided on http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/firmware.php as required by the driver.
To install the firmware, decompress the .tgz in /lib/firmware
To turn off the radio on boot-up load ipw2100 with option disable=1, i.e. # modprobe ipw2100 disable=1.
