[CLUG] intel 2200 wireless on mandrake 10.1 official

[justin flavin]

that's excellent Donncha!   i've just noticed similar stuff being said
on Mandrake bugzilla, but the instructions aren't as complete as that
IRC chat.

http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12142

mandrakeusers.org is in a bit of confusion about the whole issue as
well - veering from ndiswrapper solutions to to recompiling your own
kernel  -  in other words , a lot of guesswork and false trails. this
solution looks promising.

thanks again. i'll mail back with an update.


On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:16:27 +0000, Donncha O Caoimh <donncha at linux.ie> wrote:
> Proinnsias Breathnach asked me to pass on the following about the
> ipw2200.. should be useful to you Justin!
> Via #linux on irc.linux.ie if anyone wants to come join us!
> 
> <pron> can you relay to the user on clug who's having ipw2200 issues
> that the current drivers "Just work" (TM) on the current ubuntu kernels
> and are quite stable .. .they also work with teh Mdk10.1 kernels ..
> <pron> not that I've tried mdk10.1 recently though :(
> <pron> http://groundstate.ca/node/313
> <pron> might have useful info
> <pron>
> http://finalpoint.homeunix.net/mandrake_10.1_vaio_a190/installing_mandrake10_1_on_vaio_a190.html
> <pron> has *lots* of useful info
> <pron> Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
> <pron> The current ipw2200 modules on mdk 10.1 and 10 do not work very
> well. Buchan Milne made this rpms available, so just add this feed and
> <pron> urpmi.addmedia ipw http://plf.zarb.org/~bgmilne/dkms/ with hdlist.cz
> <pron> For the drivers install
> <pron> urpmi dkms
> <pron> urpmi ipw2200-dkms
> <pron> urpmi ipw2100-dkms
> <pron> You also need the firmware
> <pron> urpmi ipw2100-firmware-1.2-1mdk
> <pron> urmpi ipw2200-firmware-2.0-1mdk
> <pron> After this execute drakconnect to configure the wireless card,
> and everything should work  fine.
> 
> Donncha.
> 
> justin flavin wrote:
> > just did a fresh install of mandrake 10.1 on my new hp nx9030 laptop.
> >
> > the strange this is , is that Mandrake detects the built-in Intel 2200
> > wireless, but it fails to load.
> >
> > Anyone manage to get this working yet?
>