Know what internal wireless you have you can have the 2100 or the 220bg wireless
First step.. go to the terminal and type the following
rpm -q kernel
hopefully you have a fully updated system and recieve
kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3
if not, update everything including the kernel
next go to http://www.atrpms.net
select your distribution (only redhat or fedora so far )
you need to download 3 rpms to get your wireless to work!!!
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MAKE SURE YOU GRAB the CORRECT VERSION # for each of these rpms if you get the 0.19-19 driver then you need the kernel module to have the 0.19-19 version/
ALSO if you have a 64 bit architecture don't worry thay have a 64 bit versions as well...
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in my case i have the 2200bg internal wireless
grab the latest rpms availible.

ipw2200-0.19-19.rhfc3.at.i386.rpm
kernel-module-ipw2200-2.6.9-1.681_FC3-0.19-19.rhfc3.at.i686.rpm

you'll next need to go to here to get the firmware

http://atrpms.net/dist/common/ipw2200-firmware/

i grabbed the latest version of the firmware...
ipw2200-firmware-2.2-5.at.noarch.rpm

next open the terminal again and type this in ....

rpm -ivh ipw2200-0.19-19.rhfc3.at.i386.rpm kernel-module-ipw2200-2.6.9-1.681_FC3-0.19-19.rhfc3.at.i686.rpm ipw2200-firmware-2.2-5.at.noarch.rpm
if all went well then

Next Step....
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go to your routers admin page
( for testing purposes name SSID: TESTING )
set up your wireless to enable wireless AND
A-- broadcast your SSID
B-- don't broadcast your SSID but remember the name
either way your just testing here so it don't really matter
if you use DHCP then all is good then Save your Changes

Optional...

if your going to assign Static IP's then write down you settings for your router
You'll need ...
IP address (the one you'll assign your wireless device)
Subnet mask (the 255.255.255.0)
Default Gateway (your routers internal IP address )

Save your Changes

Next Step.....
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go into your Applications ---> System Settings ---> Network
click your eth0 device(wired connection) and choose the Edit button
Under the General tab uncheck the
" Activate Device when computer starts"
Click OK and click the File then Save
you'll be prompted to reboot the system because you made changes to the configuration .

Next Step......
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after all router adjustments and software installed
log out and reboot you machine.

Next Step....
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when you restart, you should be stopped durring boot up by kudzu about your card.

if you chose DHCP in your router just put a mark in the
"Assign IP Address Automatically" box then Click OK

if you chose to assign Static Ip then Enter the settings you wrote down earlier into the fields and click OK

Next Step......
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Depending on what you installed durring your installation of fedora
E.g Gnome, KDE etc..
if you installed both then go to Applications ----> Internet ---> Kwifimanager upon the applications launch it should find your network and show the signal strength and all is good and the wireless works. if you installed KDE only then you can also follow the same steps as for Gnome and KDE.

Notes....
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I personally followed the steps above using DHCP and not trying the static IP addressing as of this writing. after all your just trying to get your wireless to work for now. Any questions or comments please join the fedora-users mailing list you can sign up at

http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

If i made any goofs in my above writing please let me know and i'll revise as needed.
Hopefully you get everything to work and your going to need my next post which will be on how to secure your wireless and get it to function properly... check back soon

it installed easily with intel's driver from http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net but lately it's been having issues with initializing at boot, and firmware errors. Linux is never able to shut down the device correctly. Not sure if this is a problem with my model computer (Toshiba M35X-S311) or the wireless card. Other than this it works well.

Not a real big hassle to get working, but you do have to make sure that you don't really enable that much 802.11 stuff in the kernel.

I have Device Drivers --> Network device support --> Wireless LAN (non-hamradio) built into the kernel, but nothing inside of it, and nothing selected in networking support.

Then after building the kernel (make && make modules_install) simply 'emerge ieee80211 ipw2200' and copy your kernel to the /boot, and you're ready to roll. Oh, and you'll want to load modules ipw2200 ieee80211 and maybe ieee80211_crypt at boot.

The card itself seems to work quite well, much better than my desktop system's wireless. It always finds me an access point whenever I need one :)

Works well with the driver from sourceforge and wpa_supplicant.
I have not had any problems with this card, installation and useage.

Works out of the box with Ubuntu/Kubuntu. Easy to configure using either vi or KWifiManager.