Did you install the firmware according to the wiki?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_Setup#ipw2100_and_ipw2200

Jeremiah E. Bess
Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four.six


On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 07:29, Scott Vargovich <[email protected]>wrote:

> I so wish I could get Arch working on my laptop.  I've tried the last 2
> releases and whenever I connect to wifi - my wifi chipset is ipw2100 -
> whenever I try to put a large amount of info through it - like streaming a
> video, the connection always drops.  BTW - my router is a Linksys WRT54G2
> with dd-wrt firmware.  I'm using WPA2 encryption and have tried both
> Network Manager and Wicd.  I've tried asking on the Freenode #archlinux
> channel and all they can say is to physically connect my laptop to the
> router when I want to watch streaming media.  That is just not an option
> for me.  Do you possibly have any words of wisdom, Mr Bess... or anybody
> else for that matter???
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Jeremiah Bess <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> I'm not one of them, but there seems to be a huge flock of people to
>> Linux Mint. I see tons of blog reviews and Google+ 
>> postings<https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/linuxmint>about it. I personally have 
>> moved from Mandriva to Arch Linux on my desktop
>> and ArchBang on my lappy.
>>
>> Jeremiah E. Bess
>> Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four.six
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 07:10, Roy <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I have tried openSuSE 12.1. There are pluses and minuses for an Ubuntu
>>> user. OpenSuSE has GNOME Shell 3.2 which is available for Ubuntu and
>>> KDE 4.7.3, same as Kubuntu. Those are neither pluses nor minuses, but
>>> show that your desktop environment should not dictate your move.
>>> Rather you need to choose based on community, support, available
>>> packages, package management, etc.
>>>
>>> OpenSuSE is one of the premier implementations of Btrfs. It is the
>>> default file system. KDE is the default desktop, but you can choose
>>> GNOME, XFCE or LXDE versions. Btrfs is more complicated to setup, but
>>> it has a nice feature to do snapshots and rollbacks. It has something
>>> called Snapper to enable this. OpenSusE also features something called
>>> Tumbleweed that in effect can change it to a rolling release.
>>>
>>> OpenSuSE 12.1 has some exciting features, but on the downside is that
>>> it is an unfamiliar package management system for Ubuntu users (rpm
>>> and Yast). It can be tricky to run for newbies. There is a bit of a
>>> learning curve that you should be prepared for. It can become unstable
>>> quickly if you do not know what you are doing, in my experience.
>>> Support is good, but not as good as Ubuntu. The community is much
>>> smaller. You also have smaller repositories and lose PPAs.
>>>
>>> As with all distros it comes down to choice and what you expect and want.
>>>
>>> Roy
>>>
>>> Using Kubuntu 11.10, 64-bit
>>> Location: Canada
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 7 December 2011 21:59, Kari <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > Actually I was thinking the same thing.  I haven't looked outside of
>>> Ubuntu
>>> > in quite a while -- it is time to try something new.  OpenSuSE would
>>> be fun
>>> > to try.
>>> >
>>> > And I think the group is just quiet.
>>> >
>>> > ~kari
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Ben Chavez <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Did the group got quiet or am I exclude from receiving mail from it?
>>> Has
>>> >> anyone tried the new OpenSuSE release yet? I think it is the 12.1
>>> release. I
>>> >> have been thinking on get away from Ubuntu after 3 years using it so
>>> I am
>>> >> thinking on an rpm base distro just to learn something different.
>>> >> LinuxMint which is ranking up high I think is just second after
>>> Ubuntu it
>>> >> is actually a derivative from ubuntu so installing that it wont get
>>> me much
>>> >> far from ubuntu.
>>> >> Take care and happy hollidays!
>>> >>
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