New lappy success!

[Raymond]

Similar situation with my Panasonic Toughbook CF-51.

Everything on Kubuntu-5.04 worked "out-of-the-box"; however I utilized the 
Paragon (I purchased and installed in windows) as a boot manager, created a 
separate boot partition and have grub load from the same, thus leaving the 
windows mbr intact.

Some subsequent problems with wireless (required kernel mod reloads) when 
selecting an essid that was protected. Now utilize the following desktop icon 
configurations:

AP Scan:

ifdown eth1 ; modprobe -r ipw2200 ; modprobe ipw2200 ; iwconfig eth1 essid 
foo; sleep 5 ; date > ~/wifiScan.txt ; iwlist eth1 scanning >> 
~/wifiScan.txt ; konqueror ~/wifiScan.txt

AP Any

ifdown eth1 ; modprobe -r ipw2200 ; modprobe ipw2200 ; iwconfig eth1 essid any 
ap any key off ; sleep 1 ; ifup eth1 ; sleep 2 ; /etc/init.d/ntpdate 
force-reload ; sleep 3

and comment out auto-starting of wireless interfaces ( note that the wireless 
card starts, but NOT the interface). Auto-starting wireless is a security 
problem for many of us that utilize public hot-spots.

/etc/network/interfaces

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
#-- Commented Out --
# auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
# wireless-* options are implemented by the wireless-tools package
# wireless-mode managed
# wireless-essid any
# wireless-ap any
# wireless-key off

Also have configurations for for WEP; just modify essid any with essid 
restricted XXXX-XXXX-XX (pattern is 64-bit hex) 


Raymond