Mark,
I've got 2200BG in my Acer, on which I run FC2. I tried various
systems which wrap the windows drivers and they all caused spurious
errors, system hangs, reboots, etc. In the end I tried the linux
driver Steve mentioned (http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/) and it works
fine for what I do (not that I push the limits in any way).
David
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Rankin, SE (Stephen) wrote:
> Mark,
>
> And there appears to be an experimental driver for Linux:
>
> http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/
>
> But I usually avoid experimental drivers like the plague.
>
> Ndiswrapper worked for me until I upgraded to 64bit FC3 Linux.
>
> Steve.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Starlink development [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> McIlwrath, BK (Brian)
> Sent: 08 June 2005 11:01
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: wireless drivers
>
> Driverloader (www.linuxant.com/driverloader) is exactly the same
> technology as ndiswrapper but is perhaps easier to play with. They
> charge $20 for a licence but it's easy to see if it works at all during
> the 1-month free trial (and then convert to ndiswrapper!)
>
> The above menthods were the only way I could get a Buffalo 54g PCMCIA
> card going on my laptop.
>
> Brian
>
>
> Starlink development wrote on :
>
> > Mark,
> >
> > Is it a 54g wireless card? If so you may need to use the
> > Windows drivers with http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/, as
> > support for 54g on Linux is poor.
> >
> > Steve.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Starlink development [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> > Of Mark Taylor Sent: 08 June 2005 10:35
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: wireless drivers
> >
> > Duncan, or anyone else with experience in this,
> >
> > I've installed Scientific Linux 3 (which is a rebadged RHEL3)
> > on my new laptop (IBM ThinkPad), but it doesn't recognise the
> > wireless network card, an Intel Pro 2200BG. Looks like Intel's
> > driver requires kernel versions >=2.6.8. SL3 has 2.4 kernels.
> > Scientific Linux 4 apparently has a 2.6.9 kernel.
> >
> > Questions:
> >
> > 1. does anyone have useful experience with getting IP2200BG
> > working under linux?
> >
> > 2. does anyone have experience with Scientific Linux 4 and/or
> > RHEL4 (which it's a copy of)? It claims to come with
> > backward compatibility libraries so I guess things that
> > work on RHEL3 (like building/running the USSC) ought to work,
> > but you never know...
> >
> > I'm not deeply committed to Scientific Linux, but Rhys
> > suggested it was a good choice.
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > Mark
>
>
>
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