My laptop is running Centrino with the IPW2200 as the Wi-Fi. Here, I describe the way to build a kernel to support it.
Firstly, download the kernel source, definitely. At the time of writing, I used the kernel version 2.6.8.1 for that. Afterwards, several things more to do:
- Download the IPW2200 driver from http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net. At the time of writing, it is version 0.7 and named
ipw2200-0.7.tgz
- Extract the kernel source, and go to
drivers/net/wireless
, then extractipw2200-0.7.tgz
here - Rename the directory
ipw2200-0.7
to justipw2200
- Back to the root of your kernel source, and run this command:
patch -p1 < drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200/patches/ipw2200-2.6.8-patch
make menuconfig
and make up your components, then build- Finished
With a new kernel supporting Wi-Fi, and with the firmware (downloaded from
http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net) placed inside /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware
,
I’ve did modprobe ipw2200
and a new Wi-Fi device is up.
Afterwards, I can simply use the wireless tools (e.g. iwconfig
, iwlist
) to set
up other stuff and play.