I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 that has built in Intel wifi that uses the IPW2200 module. I'm not using 2.6, and I really haven't heard of anyone using 2.4 to get their wifi working. I have ipw2200 and ieee80211packaged as .deb's if you don't want to compile them. Although it is really simple to make the packages. Here is the article I have on putting Debian on my laptop: http://greg.silosoft.org/2006/02/18/new-laptop/ On Wednesday 19 April 2006 20:02, David Riggs wrote: > I got my R50e working by falling back to Sarge 2.4/XFree86: I could not > get this TrackPoint-only (no trackpad) unit to work with Etch/X.org. But > is it possible to get the built-in Intel wireless working? All the > kernal instructions with special wireless package (iwp2200-source) are > pretty intimidating to me. > > Any suggestions would be much appreciated, and especially if someone has > gotten this combo to work. I have no reason not to go to a higher level > if necessary, I just want to get the box working, and I am a little > afraid of clobbering what I have already got working. > > I have been lucky up until now: never had to do any special compiles for > non-open stuff, so I have not experience with kernal headers and such. > > Thanks, > > David Riggs > Kyoto -- Greg Ryman Network Engineering Supervisor Candylogic, LLC. gregr@candylogic.com Phone: 949-916-4444 ext. 203
Attachment:
pgpWOAETbon0C.pgp
Description: PGP signature