Installing IPW2x00 Kernel Modules

by scott_glaser — last modified Nov 15, 2008 04:50 PM

Contributors: daMaestro

— filed under: Wireless

The Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2100 Drivers for Linux project was created by Intel to enable support for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection, Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection mini PCI adapters and Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection mini PCI adapter. This project's (IPW2200) and (IPW2100) are intended to be a community effort, as much as is possible, given some working constraints (mainly, no HW documentation is available).

Requirements

Read our Getting Started with Wireless Guide.
This assumes you have a working Fedora installation and that you have configured yum to use RPMFusion

Doing the work

Update your system
```
su -c "yum update"
```
If your kernel was among the items updated you will want to reboot.
Next you need to determine which firmware is suited for your card.
```
su -c "/sbin/lspci | grep Wireless"
```
If your output is like the first line below you want to install ipw2200-firmeware, if it reads like the second line you want to install ipw2100-firmware
```
02:01.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)
02:01.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04)
```
Now that you have determined which firmware you need, you will need to install the firmware:
```
su -c "yum install ipw2xxx-firmware"
```
Substiute the correct firmware for your card (i.e. ipw2100 or ipw2200) This will install the firmware required for your wireless network card.
Once the firmware is installed reboot your machine.
Configure your eth0 wireless card normally
```
su -c "system-config-network"
```

Troubleshooting

How to test

Open a terminal.

Then type:

ping yahoo.com

Then press Enter.

Results similar to the ones below should be displayed.

PING yahoo.com (216.109.112.135) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=0 ttl=53 time=274 ms
[...]

Common problems and fixes

Check this link for known issues with IPW2200-Firmware http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/#issues

Check this link for known issues with IPW2100-Firmware http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/#issues

More Information

Disclaimer

We test this stuff on our own machines, really we do. But you may run into problems, if you do, come to #fedora on irc.freenode.net

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