Ipw2200

Intel PRO/Wireless 2200 Driver for WiFi

Linux driver for the 802.11bg NIC - miniPCI cards - found in Centrino laptops. This driver only works on 2.6.x kernels (2.6.4 or newer).

Project Homepage / Availability

http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/

Packages

• Fedora Core Packages: 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

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 1.0.4 and firmware 2.3!

Current Version: 1.0.4

Firmware Version: 2.3

Works fine!

Additional Comments

make sure you grab the newest version and new loadable firmware as required by the driver