IPW2200 (intel pro wireless 2200 drivers)

tsunam · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Feb 2004 Posts: 343

Guess what everyone .3 has been released and it's functional. You can all look to see if you can drop ndiswrapper for native drivers! You need a kernel greater then 2.6.3(2.6.4 minimum) apparently, and the short test they did of it before releasing it had 450KB/s reported.

Release 0.3 Features
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This is the very first release with transmit and receive working. This
is very new code (we only started sending/transmitting good packets a few
hours before writing this) and is sure to be full of some nasty bugs.

Some notable short coming of this drop are:
* WEP is not completely hooked up yet, so while you can associate with an
encrypted AP, you won't be able to communiate (no DHCP, no data, etc.)
* We only associate using B band
* Limited wireless tools
* Only infrastructure mode works
* The statistics returned by iwconfig and /proc/net/wireless are mostly garbage

Go kill the Sourceforge mirrors

Ecco · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 3:58 pm Post subject:

Utter sweetness. Now before we know it we'll have proper drivers in portage and we shall all be happy wireless piggies

Insanity5902 · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 4:06 pm Post subject:

Not trying to start a flame BUT

IMHO this is not functional.

Without having WEP (and assuming WPA) also, I dont' find this acceptable. Working in the IT field, I would never set up a AP wihtout at least a WEP security in place. The old 40-bit WEP sucked, the newer 128-bit is a lot better. The best is WPA. I wouldn't call this driver acceptable until they have at least 128-bit WEP working.

At my work, we have to run WPA through a vpn connection (or a vpn connection trhough WPA). So truly this isn't even functional to me. Though I hope the can get it soon, my next laptop is looking like it is going to have the 2200BG wireless connection.

Can't wait to see the progress of this b/c I have never like ndiswrapper for anything.
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Ecco · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 7:58 pm Post subject:

There's no flame in there, but the simple truth

But this driver isn't exciting for what it can or can't do. It's exciting because of where it's going. Soon we won't have to wrestle around with things like ndiswrapper anymore

Insanity5902 · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 8:12 pm Post subject:

i know and for that I am excited.
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tsunam · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Feb 2004 Posts: 343

Its far from functional for me as well, but ndiswrapper has never worked for me. thru various versions so I'm just patiently waiting for the next release. I just felt that if you are on campus where they do have open access points its worth using(which is why i grabbed it, school starts next week on campus after all, and I disliked having to boot windows just to hop online.)...or a neighbor who happens to let you borrow their wireless since they didn't turn on WAP security. *whistles*

Most people who use linux I'd hope would run wep at a minimum. It is true that it doesn't support that but it will in time. You also have to consider that they are doing this from scratch so even getting transfer to work on non wep working is a big step to getting wep working. So in reality its a big step for a linux native driver. If I could I'd love to help but unfortunately my background in programming is far from that required.

jewps · n00b Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 74

especially since this is backed by intel. their 2100b started off without wep and it took off in a few weeks. the development of the 2100b drivers seems to have halted at .51 for now, since it works pretty well, i'm happy. you have to apperciate intel for their rather impressive linux support, not to mention it's open source

Ecco · Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 10:04 am Post subject:

If you have a 2200bg and you want to get the ndiswrapper to work I can tell you something from my own experience.
The card only gets detected properly from ndiswrapper 0.9. Just download it yourself from sourceforge. Do a make install and use the w22n51 drivers (the normal drivers from intel, you can get them from the link on the "supported hardware" page on the ndiswrapper site).
Just remember, the card does not get properly detected with ndiswrapper 0.8 or lower.
This worked like a charm for me, so maybe you'll give it another go

asph · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 6:53 pm Post subject:

just emerged ipw2200, and just posting to say that now my wireless card works perfectly

i don't need wep, since i use mac addresses to identify users on the wlan.. so the driver works great for me (finally i can use internet all over my house with my laptop

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GenKreton · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 7:31 pm Post subject:

GenKreton · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 11:11 pm Post subject:

0.4 is out with wep open auth (not shared) only among the list of changes.

Go intel!

Insanity5902 · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 4:32 am Post subject:

just fyi, wep isn't just to keep ppl from connecting to the AP but also to encrypt the data as it transfer from your comptuer to the AP b/c when it is in the air, it is fair game (and I think the law sees it as this also, if you don't protect your AP or the data, and it gets used, they can look it, just can't process it)

the .4 release is very intersting. I have been looking at which minipci card to get for my laptop. I can get teh 2200BG for about 40 bucks, or a netgate one (which has supperior perfomance) for about 90 bucks .... what to do.
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tsunam · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Feb 2004 Posts: 343

Anyone else having some issues with the ipw2200-.4-r1. I'm getting a abnormally high cpu use from it. I'll do a ifconfig eth1 up and it'll shoot right 100% and stay there til i force it it reload/unload. Once I do that the cpu will return to 0-4% used. I'm just wondering if its just me getting this.

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Ecco · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 6:37 pm Post subject:

Weird, I seem to be unable to load the driver properly. I haven't tried the pervious ones since they're not really usable anyway.

I certainly do have an Intel 2200 BG, and it works with ndiswrapper:

dyqik · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 10:07 am Post subject:

I've posted a howto of how I got my ipw2200 to work with version 0.5 of the ipw2200 drivers, and 2.6.8-gentoo-r1 at https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=217688

Some of you might find it useful, and others might be able to improve on it.

Insanity5902 · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 1:46 pm Post subject:

On the sourceforge site for the 2200 card, they mention intel is coming out with a 2915, that is a a/b/g which is the 2200 card with a specs on it.

I am about to buy a laptop and would like the 2915 card instead of the 2200 card, they say the 2200 drivers will work on the 2915 card, and eveantualy the driver name will change to reflect that.

As anyone seen the 2915 card for sell. I have tried searching around for a bit and didn't find anything intresting?
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logics · n00b Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 6

From an article on The Register:

Insanity5902 · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 9:16 pm Post subject:

damnit, i wonder if i can wait a month

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Ecco · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 2:53 pm Post subject:

Just a shameless *bump* to see if anyone has any idea about my firmware problem...

Insanity5902 · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 3:33 pm Post subject:

Ecco, check out this thread, there as been a lot of development of these drivers in the past 2 wks.

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=217688&highlight=
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Ecco · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 5:21 pm Post subject:

the_enigma · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 6:57 am Post subject:

Ecco: Make sure you aren't loading ndiswrapper beforehand. Even if you load and then unload the ndiswrapper module, it probably will break ipw2200. It does something to the firmware upload thing, I'm not sure what.

Ecco · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 7:12 pm Post subject: