I recently bought an IBM ThinkPad X40. I opted for the Intel Pro/Wireless 2200BG Mini PCI Adapter on advice from Dan Williams:
Driver works well, it's open-source, and very likely will be
in-kernel soon. All the cool kids have em :)<http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2005-March/msg00048.html>
I am using a stock Fedora Core 3 kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3, stock NetworkManager-0.3.4-1.1.0.fc3 also from Fedora Core 3, and stock ipw2200-1.0.3-26.rhfc3.at drivers from the ATrpms repository (http://atrpms.net/dist/fc3/ipw2200-testing/). NetworkManager works great. Nearby wireless networks are detected automatically. Signal strengths are reported. Plug in a cable and it switches to Ethernet. Unplug and it's back to wireless. WEP keys work fine. Everything works fine. It's perfect and wonderful and I'm as happy as a clam.
(Side note: those ipw2200 drivers are currently in the testing section of the ATrpms repository. I started with ipw2200-1.0.0-23.rhfc3.at, the latest stable packages from <http://atrpms.net/dist/fc3/ipw2200/>. This worked well except for not reporting signal strength. Moving to the newer testing packages got signal strength working too. Hooray!)
Thanks, Dan. NetworkManager rocks my world. _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
