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Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 mini-PCI adapter
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Reviews
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Date of last review
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5
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42734
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08-24-2005
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Recommended By
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Average Price
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Average Rating
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100% of reviewers
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None indicated
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9.0
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Description:
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For those of you who don't already know, an experimental driver is available at: http://ipw2100.sf.net. Non-WEP operation is approaching stability, and WEP is working but does have problems (see web site). Driver is being actively and heavily developed, so this information will be quickly out-of-date. The latest version at the time of this writing was 0.41.
There appears to be several revisions of the PRO/Wireless 2100. As far as I know, the ipw2100 driver works for all of them.
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Keywords:
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pro/wireless centrino wlan wireless
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/sbin/lspci output:
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02:04.0 Network controller: Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI. PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCIAdapter (rev 04)
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Chipset:
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N/A (unique)
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Connection Type:
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mini-PCI
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06-15-2004, 01:17 PM
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#1
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Registered: Mar 2003
Distribution: Ubuntu (x2)
Posts: 158
Rep: 
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 7
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.3
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debian testing
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http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/
I had trouble getting this card running, until v 0.44 which coincided with a firmware update.
Now it works quite well, with WEP enabled and everything.
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08-26-2004, 08:17 PM
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#2
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Registered: Jul 2003
Distribution: Fedora Core 4
Posts: 58
Rep:
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 9
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
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Fedora Core 1
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I wasn't able to get that experimental driver to work, however, ndiswrapper (http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/) has worked perfectly for me. Takes a little effort to set up, but once it's going, it works (haven't tried with WEP). Uses the original XP drivers for the card, which you can find somewhere online.. heh.
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03-16-2005, 12:38 PM
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#3
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Registered: Mar 2005
Distribution: ubuntu
Posts: 3
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 9
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.10-1.770_FC3
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Distribution:
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Fedora Core 3
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I had a little bit of trouble getting it all together in the beginning (i was also still new to linux at the time as well). But once I got it figured out it works like a charm.
The only gripe that I have is in order to get wpa working you must go through all sorts of other processes which I have yet to attempt (only reason i did not give it a 10).
Here are two links for the rpm packages for the drivers and firmware.
http://www.atrpms.net/dist/fc3/ipw2100/
http://atrpms.net/dist/common/ipw2100-firmware/
Here is another link for a tutorial...granted it is for the ipw2200 but it works for either one if you just substitute 2100 for 2200.
http://fedoranews.org/contributors/jim_lawrence/wireless/
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04-06-2005, 09:25 PM
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#4
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Registered: Sep 2003
Distribution: Slacking since '94
Posts: 153
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.4.29
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Slackware 10.1
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http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net
For the 2.4.29 Kernel you will need:
back patch: http://home.cern.ch/dellaric/ipw2100/
drivers: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ipw2100/ipw2100-1.1.0.tgz?download
firmware: http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/firmware.php?fid=4
Apply the back patch to the drivers and do the make and make install.
One thing that I had to do is create a /lib/firmware directory and copy the firmware to that directory. After that I ran the load script that came with the drivers and made the configuration changes to /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf for the "eth1" (yours may be different) to include DHCP and the KEY="your key here" attribute. No problems at all.
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08-24-2005, 07:37 AM
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#5
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Registered: Aug 2004
Distribution: Debian testing (I try others but always come back - it is the best)
Posts: 24
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.10-5.i386
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Distribution:
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Ubuntu (hoary)
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From scratch Ubuntu Hoary identified it and installed it perfectly and then installed the rest of my ubuntu system - it works flawlessly. Can only say to people to use ubuntu.
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