So, I’m going back on something I said yesterday because when I got home last night, I realized that my built-in Intel 2200BG wireless doesn’t work anymore. Worked fine right out of the box with Suse 9.3 but it’s DOA with version 10.0 so far. My old config is still listed in YaST along with a second copy of the 2200BG card, but when I attempt to configure it, it tells me that I need to install the ipw-firmware. Sounds easy, but when YaST attempts to install it, it fails. Package isn’t available from any YaST repository that I’ve found. I guess I’m gonna get down and dirty with trying to recompile my kernel and the drivers from ipw2200.sourceforge.net. If anyone has suggestions, feel free to chime in.
[...] After my last post/rant about my Intel Centrino IPW 2200 not working in Suse Linux 10, I did some more digging and realized that I had the OSS version of Suse 10 and not the Professional Eval that I usually use. That being said, some proprietary, non-open-source items have to be left out of the OSS version due to licensing issues. Luckily though, Novell/Suse does still make those packages available, just not in the default install for the OSS version. So head over to either your favorite mirror or mine, and download the ipw-firmware-5-6.noarch.rpm from the /inst-source-extra/suse/noarch directory and install it. I used the command (as root) “yast -i ipw-firmware-5-6.noarch.rpm” and was immediately able to go back into YaST2 and configure my card. So, for the record, and the sake of you being able to find this post via your favorite search engine, the Intel Centrino IPW 2200 wireless on a IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad R51 (Model 1836Q4U to be exact) works fantastically with Suse Linux 10 OSS. [...]