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yim · Joined: 01 Sep 2007 Posts: 165 Location: Blue Ridge Mtns

has anyone ever had the ipw2200 wireless to work out of the box running the network wizard, sons Thinkpad R52 has this. I got it running once with ndiswrapper but can't remember the configuration or the exact driver. His XP install has 3 folders with lan drivers. When I did have this working it worked well but can't figure out why the linux driver that comes with puppy doesn't work. I've tried all versions from pup2.14 to current the ipw2200 that is detected on boot has never worked.

If anyone has had luck please post what you did if anything special in settings. trying to connect to wpa, and have changed setting to open and to wpa2 to no avail. Have a pcmcia card EDIMAX that works perfectly on all settings with the supplied rt61 driver.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

wireless with ipw2200 does work with xp

thanks yim

yim · Joined: 01 Sep 2007 Posts: 165 Location: Blue Ridge Mtns

canezilla · Joined: 23 Jul 2007 Posts: 15

Hi yim,

I am back using puppy again because I just fixed a laptop that was being tossed out. It is an old Dell Inspiron 8200. I bought the cheapest mini-PCI card and that turns out to have been the Intel IPW2200 BG I believe.

First, I loaded Debian from a generic install CD. It knew it was there but I spent all day trying to compile the kernel and make things work... but no luck.

Second, I went to my collection of trusty puppy distro CDs I have collected throughout the years. I grabbed my latest Lighthouse Puppy 3.01g. Booted and loaded the network configure app. And to my surprise, it was ready to work!! etho=LAN, eth1=Intel ipw2200.... Are you kidding?? I thought??!! Configured, saved, then USE THIS PROFILE and I was done fighting my intel wifi card. I am writing now using puppy and my wifi.

So, In summary, I hope I can save you time by suggesting that you download Lighthouse Puppy 3.01g. It just works. Good luck to you. And THANKS to those involved in Puppy and, in particular, Lighthouse Puppy!!

Brian

canezilla · Joined: 23 Jul 2007 Posts: 15

Also, I did not use ndiswrapper. I didn't have to. It worked without that step.......

yim · Joined: 01 Sep 2007 Posts: 165 Location: Blue Ridge Mtns

canezilla:

thanks for the info, I have that cd here somewhere, will let my son try it see what he thinks
I really appreciate the info

yim

tempestuous · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 4944 Location: Australia

The IPW2200 wifi device is quite old, and the Linux ipw2200 driver has been reported working in Puppy versions as far back as v1.04 in 2005.
Since it's not a new device, there are few reports on the forum about it, but HairyWill reports recent success here
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=267935#267935

HairyWill · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2949 Location: Southampton, UK

kirk · Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 1333 Location: florida

My current laptop that I've had for the past 3 years or so uses the ipw2200. Never had a problem. Sometimes the device ids for some devices overlap and the wrong kernel module gets loaded. Are you sure it's an ipw2200?

yim · Joined: 01 Sep 2007 Posts: 165 Location: Blue Ridge Mtns

most definitely, yes

I have noticed that the ipw2200 that is detected is showing as eth1

and also I kept tinkering and did get this to work with 3.01 but not in the later puppies

memeyou · Joined: 04 Dec 2007 Posts: 14

ipw2200 has worked on my r51 for quiet some time now - a lot longer than iwl has anyway - one reason i chose puppy was for the 2.6.25+ kernel for it's better iwl driver.

but sometimes the autoloading modules change order and udev or whatever screws all the names up - sometimes a module has an option to fix this but ipw2200 doesn't - so, i blacklisted ipw2200 and manually load my drivers so my rc.firewall etc. don't get messed up on startup. you can blacklist and manually load drivers without even using the terminal! puppy ftw.

brymway · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 410

ipw2200 works great here. Loads as eth1, no problem

yim · Joined: 01 Sep 2007 Posts: 165 Location: Blue Ridge Mtns

brymway

just out of curiosity, does the wi-fi indicator light come on with a working setup, (if you have one, that is).

Reason for asking is that the only time it worked for me the indicator light came on. If no light no connection

yim

brymway · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 410

The ipw2200 is on a no name laptop that has three lights on the front of the case, one for power, one for battery and one for wireless. Then on the left side of the computer I have a slider switch that manually turns the wireless on/off. When I turn that on, the wireless modem is activated and the light comes on.

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6660 Location: lisbon

@yim,

I've just acquired an r52, and noticed that under windows the wireless LED is active upon boot, but not with puppy. Because where I am there's not much wireless around to test it, I just tried it at a netcafe, with wireless access, & yes, when I connect to wireless the LED becomes active.