Differences between version 3 and predecessor to the previous major change of IPW2x00WirelessChipset.
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| Newer page: | version 3 | Last edited on Tuesday, September 20, 2005 2:54:47 pm | by IanMcDonald | Revert |
| Older page: | version 2 | Last edited on Tuesday, September 20, 2005 2:16:46 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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-The Intel IPW2200 wireless chipset has an open-source driver but it requires closed-source firmware; therefore the driver is
not in the standard LinuxKernel. This chipset is used in many laptops (such as the Compaq [Presario|PresarioNotes] series) as part of the "Centrino" brand.
+The Intel IPW2200 wireless chipset has an open-source driver but it requires closed-source firmware; therefore the driver until now has
not been
in the standard LinuxKernel. This will be changing to be included in the LinuxKernel with a path specified for the firmware. This is coming RealSoonNow.
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This chipset is used in many laptops (such as the Compaq [Presario|PresarioNotes] series) as part of the "Centrino" brand.
Ubuntu Linux (5.04) already comes with support for this wireless card out of the box, so you should be all ready to go. However, the older version of the driver that comes with Hoary does not support [WPA] properly, so either manually compile and install the driver from the above link, or use Ubuntu Breezy (currently in development). See the WirelessNetworkSecurityNotes for more.
You can download the driver (and the firmware) from http://ipw2200.sf.net, although you will also need to build the ieee80211 support modules which are currently outside of the kernel tree (I think there is a version of them in linux-2.6.13-rc1, so it might be a part of future releases).
