Richard,

I believe the actual drivers for that wi-fi chipset have been included in the mailinen Linux kernel since 2.6.15, so no extra compliation should be necessary.

You will probably need to install the binary firmware to get it to work, though. Exactly the best way to do this will depend on what distribution you're using - usually, there'll be a non-free repository I'd expect, and you'd just install the appropriate package.

Information for Debian is here, for example:

http://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200

HTH,

Peter.

On 11 October 2010 15:37, Richard McLellan richardmclellan@hotmail.co.uk wrote:

Hi folks, I have a Dell Inspiron with the Intel 2200B/G wireless card.  After reading the destructions that came with the linux drivers, it goes on about building it with the kernel or something close to that.  I have no idea what/how to do this.  Would this have to be done regardless of linux version or might there be a linux version with these drivers already in the distro? Thanks Rich _______________________________________________ main@lists.alug.org.uk http://www.alug.org.uk/ http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main Unsubscribe?  See message headers or the web site above!