I did this, wrote it up and thought I would share if anyone can't get wireless going with ipw2200.<br><br>Just like rawhide, my instructions can flush your pc down the drain so if it breaks you can only blame your self since you hit <enter>.....
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">mkdir -p ~/downloads/ipw2200</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">cd ~/downloads/ipw2200</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://ieee80211.sourceforge.net/downloads.php">http://ieee80211.sourceforge.net/downloads.php</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">wget -c
<a href="http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ieee80211/ieee80211-1.1.6.tgz">http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ieee80211/ieee80211-1.1.6.tgz</a></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/downloads.php">http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/downloads.php</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">wget -c
<a href="http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ipw2200/ipw2200-1.0.8.tgz">http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ipw2200/ipw2200-1.0.8.tgz</a></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php">http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">grab the 2.4 firmware and drop it in
your dir</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">su -</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">cd /lib/firmware/</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> tar xvf
/home/justin/downloads/ipw2200/ipw2200-fw-2.4.tgz</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">exit</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">tar xvzf ieee80211-1.1.6.tgz</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">cd ieee80211-1.1.6</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">chmod +x remove-old</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">su -c ./remove-old</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Password: <root></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Above files found. Remove? [y],n y</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Above definitions found. Comment out?
[y], n y</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> cd ../</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> tar xvf ipw2200-1.0.8.tgz</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> cd ipw2200-1.0.8</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> chmod +x remove-old</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">su -c ./remove-old</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Password: <root></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Above definitions found. Comment out?
[y], n y</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">cd ../ieee80211-1.1.6</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">make</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">su -c "make install" <--with
quotes</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> cd ../ipw2200-1.0.8</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">make</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">su -c "make install"</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">reboot ---make sure the modules get
loaded and you can see your device</p>
<br>Check dmesg<br><br> dmesg | grep ipw<br>ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.8<br>ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2005 Intel Corporation<br>ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
<br>ipw2200: Unknown notification: subtype=40,flags=0xa0,size=40<br>ipw2200: Unknown notification: subtype=40,flags=0xa0,size=40<br>ipw2200: Unknown notification: subtype=40,flags=0xa0,size=40<br><br>Not sure what the Unknow's are, but I'm typing right now, so I assume my network is running ;)
<br><br>setup your wireless how ever you normally do it.<br><br>system-config-network<br><br><br>