success report: ipw2200

[Ben Liblit <liblit cs wisc edu>]

Many of the messages on this list are problem reports.  I thought you'd 
appreciate hearing a report of complete, unqualified success.

I recently bought an IBM ThinkPad X40.  I opted for the Intel 
Pro/Wireless 2200BG Mini PCI Adapter on advice from Dan Williams:

	Driver works well, it's open-source, and very likely will be
	in-kernel soon.  All the cool kids have em :)

<http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2005-March/msg00048.html>

I am using a stock Fedora Core 3 kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3, stock 
NetworkManager-0.3.4-1.1.0.fc3 also from Fedora Core 3, and stock 
ipw2200-1.0.3-26.rhfc3.at drivers from the ATrpms repository 
(http://atrpms.net/dist/fc3/ipw2200-testing/).  NetworkManager works 
great.  Nearby wireless networks are detected automatically.  Signal 
strengths are reported.  Plug in a cable and it switches to Ethernet. 
Unplug and it's back to wireless.  WEP keys work fine.  Everything works 
fine.  It's perfect and wonderful and I'm as happy as a clam.

(Side note: those ipw2200 drivers are currently in the testing section 
of the ATrpms repository.  I started with ipw2200-1.0.0-23.rhfc3.at, the 
latest stable packages from <http://atrpms.net/dist/fc3/ipw2200/>.  This 
worked well except for not reporting signal strength.  Moving to the 
newer testing packages got signal strength working too.  Hooray!)

Thanks, Dan.  NetworkManager rocks my world.