[Centos] ThinkPad R40 Centrino Wireless NIC Success

Sorisio, Chris
Tue, 27 Apr 2004 19:18:19 -0000

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I thought I''d let y''all know that,
courtesy of <A HREF="http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/"
TARGET="_blank">http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/, the
Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 (IPW2100) mini PCI adapter on my ThinkPad R40 now works
under CentOS.&nbsp; I had to compile and install the hostap driver, the
Wireless Extension and Tools, and the IPW2100 driver itself.&nbsp; You do
not need to compile a new kernel - the stock kernel works fine though you do
need to: a. install the kernel source b. generate a ''.config''
file, and c. make a single, small change to
''.config''.&nbsp; The docs as provided by the project
website provide all the cooking instructions you''ll
need.

I had tried to use ndiswrapper previously but it
caused X to freeze anytime an application tried to use anti-aliased
text.&nbsp; No problems with ipw2100 thus far, but I''m not very
familiar with the actual use of the tools yet.

The laptop does not restore from suspend
successfully with the ipw2100 driver loaded.