Centrino wireless card on Fujitsu Lifebook s7010 running Debian

[Colin Cotter <colinjcotter@gmail.com>]

Dear List,

       I am trying to get my Centrino wireless card working on my
Fujitsu-Siemans Lifebook S7010 running Debian with the 2.6.8 kernel.

I have successfully installed the ipw2200 drivers and the device comes
up as eth1. However when I select the "networking" GUI program, eth1
is set as "unavailable".

Please could you help me find what is wrong? Relevant information at
the bottom of this email.

all the best

--Colin

[relevant iwconfig output]
eth1      unassociated  ESSID:"Wireless1"
          Mode:Managed  Channel=0  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
          Bit Rate=0 kb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:4   Missed beacon:0

[relevant iwlist info]

eth1      Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:0E:2E:54:5D:F3
                    ESSID:"default"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:11
                    Encryption key:off
                    Bit Rate:54 Mb/s
                    Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 9 11 6 12 18 24 36 48 54
                    Quality=91/100  Signal level=-37 dBm
                    Extra: Last beacon: 15ms ago

[relevant ifconfig info]
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:12:F0:2E:4C:14
          inet6 addr: fe80::212:f0ff:fe2e:4c14/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:2885 errors:0 dropped:4 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1496 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0x6000 Memory:d0214000-d0214fff