Centrino 2200 BG driver?

cato` · Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 11:51 am Post subject: Centrino 2200 BG driver?

Does anyone know if the Centrino 2200BG cards are supported by the ipw2100 project?

I've emerged the driver and moprobed ipw2100, that goes fine but no new eth is showing up?

dmesg tells me

LostControl · Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 12:42 pm Post subject:

2200 is a completely different card and won't work with this driver

A+

LostControl · Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 12:44 pm Post subject:

But ndiswrapper seems to work with your wireless card

Check the CVS version !!!

mxc · Guru Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 442 Location: South Africa

I see that intel has launched a project on sourceforge for this driver

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ipw2200/

Anyone tried it? How does it compare to ndiswrapper?

drboom · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2004 Posts: 9

The intel project is still very early - all it does now is load the module and find the card - it doesn't actually support using the 2200 is anyway.

I'm currently using the linuxant wrapper for my 2200bg based laptop.

drboom

mxc · Guru Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 442 Location: South Africa

Thanks I am trying the ndiswrapper for now but can't get it to work. When I copied the .sys and .inf stuff across to the directory /lib/windrivers as suggested in other thread and ran ndiswrapper -i it complained about missing DLLs so I copied these across as well. ndiswrapper -l shows the driver as installed but when I do an iwconfig it reports that there are no wireless extensions. It seems to see the 2200 cards as an ethernet card.

bhogg · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 96

did you try running:

PMT · Apprentice Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Posts: 212

I still say you should use ndiswrapper 0.7 for the 2200 card, because, as of CVS two weeks ago, the CVS and .8 are unstable with the card [in my experience].

And the ipw2200 Intel drivers have an amusing comment in the readme, describing how to install them: "Don't."

Sorry, but that's the only advice I have. After you ndiswrapper -i w22n51;modprobe ndiswrapper, try dmesg and see if it output an error; if it output an error about driver loading, I'd suggest uninstalling and reinstalling the driver in ndiswrapper, even if it works after outputting the error [if ndiswrapper errors when modprobed, it tends to cause a nasty lockup randomly].
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teedog · Apprentice Joined: 09 Mar 2004 Posts: 211

The IPW2200 runs fine on my laptop using Ndiswrapper 0.8 and 0.9-pre1. Use the driver linked to from http://ndiswrapper.sf.net/

cato` · Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 3:25 pm Post subject:

ver 0.3 of the ipw2200 is now out

Changes in 0.3
# Implementation of many WE commands (still a lot to go)
# Scanning and association are working.
# Tx/Rx functioning for non-WEP enabled sessions
# Lots and lots of code changes
# ieee80211 pulled in from ipw2100 project.
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