Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG

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Working.

Module name: ipw2200
Driver home: http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/

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There are three ways to go about this, see: How to use Intel® Pro/Wireless 2200 BG with Linux

We're going to use the ipw2200 driver because 1) it's included with mandrake and loaded already by default, 2) it's open source, and 3) it will probably even work in 64 bit linux and the ndis wrapper's can't do this. BTW the project is sponsored by Intel, good work guys!

This would probably have worked out the box but I had to download the latest version to get my WEP key to work. Can't remember which driver used which, but there are 2 ways to specify your wep key for wireless drivers:

In /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/keys-ethX

KEY="open XXXXXXXXXX"

In /etc/sysnfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX

WIRELESS_ENC_KEY="open XXXXXXXX"

That will also change the authentication method to open which I think is more common that restrictive.

Be careful if you're screwing around with the ndiswrapper driver, you won't be able to use any other driver after you've used this without a cold boot!

Also: for WEP to work, you must have ARC4 cipher enabled in your (2.6.x) kernel (it's under Cryptographic API, second from the bottom on the very first menu), and you have to have the CRC32 option enabled as well (under Library Routines, which should be the very last item on the first menu). You must also enable wireless networking under Device Drivers->Networking Support->Wireless LAN (non-hamradio) for the driver to work at all. There's also some firmware hackery you have to go through, and that's explained more at the site for the SourceForge? project.