ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 18, Issue 125

[Jochen Kaechelin]

Am Montag, 13. Februar 2006 10:23 schrieb Alain Muls:
> On Monday 13 February 2006 02:04, ubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com 
wrote:
> > Even if Ubuntu came with ndiswrapper, you still need the Windows drivers
> > for your card, which Ubuntu can't legally distribute.
> >
> > ndiswrapper is not a great solution - try to get a natively supported
> > card, like an Intel IPW2100 or IPW2200 chipset, or one of the old
> > Prism54 devices.  The next best choice is something that works with
> > MadWifi - it's a native driver but requires a proprietary kernel module.
> > The last choice is ndiswrapper - a hack to allow running Windows drivers
> > under linux.
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a ipw2200 in my dell notebook, but it is not working. dmesg gives
> the following messages:
>
> [4294700.834000] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver,
> 1.0.6
> [4294700.834000] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
> [4294700.836000] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network
> Connection
> [4294701.091000] ipw2200: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On:
>
> but the card is not coming up. How can I adjust this?
>
> Tx/Alain
>
> > Sorry I can't list a specific device, you'll have to Google to find an
> > exact make and model with one of the above chipsets.

Works great for me with wpa under dapper:

[4294681.326000] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 
1.0.10
[4294681.326000] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2005 Intel Corporation
[4294682.007000] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network 
Connection

What do you use: breezy?
Could you post the output of 

	'lsmod' 

and some configuration data: 

	/etc/network/interfaces

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