[NTLUG:Discuss] No wireless extensions

[Terry Henderson]

On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 20:41:18 -0600, MikeP <palazzini at comcast.net> wrote:
> iwconfig shows: no wireless extensions. I'm not understanding the pcmcia
> status and need help compiling the ipw2200 driver and firmware.


Downoald and compile driver http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/#downloads
   $ tar -zxvf ipw2200-0.19.tgz
   $ cd ipw2200-0.19
   $ ./configure
   $ make
   # make install

Load it into running kernel:
   # insmod ipw2200
or:
   # modprobe ipw2200

If any above processes fail, report errors.