fatman

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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.

Ctawp

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.

yamokojc

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/

subekk0

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.

joffa

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.