Hardware4Linux

Overall rating: 3.3 x 6

By Linux distribution:

• PLD Linux 2.99 i386: -3.0 x 1
• Gentoo 1.12.4 GenuineIntel: 3.0 x 1
• Ubuntu 7.10 i386: 5.0 x 1
• Gentoo Gentoo Base System release 1.12.11.1 GenuineIntel: 5.0 x 1
• Ubuntu 11.10 i386: 5.0 x 1
• openSUSE 11.3 i586: 5.0 x 1

Working PCI wireless cards on PLD Linux 2.99 i386 (kernel: 2.6.20.4_laptop-0.2) by czarny (-3):

It work’s for most users — ipw2200 driver. WEP support, wpa_supplicant (WPA) support out of the box, but no Master mode possible

Working PCI wireless cards on Gentoo 1.12.4 GenuineIntel (kernel: 2.6.21-suspend2-r6) by rstanchak (3):

Needed to install net-wireless/ipw2200-firmware ebuild.

Working PCI wireless cards on Gentoo Gentoo Base System release 1.12.11.1 GenuineIntel (kernel: 2.6.23-gentoo-r8) by roundstozero (5):

Works well on both B and G networks. WEP, WPA, and WPA2 supported using wpa_supplicant.

Working PCI wireless cards on Ubuntu 7.10 i386 (kernel: 2.6.22-14-generic) by redwhitered (5):

Notebook works only with certain wireless network cards found in the “white list” of the bios. Otherwise the notebook will not boot. This card works good.

Working PCI wireless cards on openSUSE 11.3 i586 (kernel: 2.6.34-12-desktop) by Reginod (5):

Never any problems connecting, other than choosing wireless networks when I first modified this machine.

• ThinkPad T42
• ThinkPad X41
• ThinkPad T42
• ThinkPad T42
• ThinkPad R52
• ThinkPad T43

• ipw2200