Download Driver For Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 0.51

At SourceForge, a number of people are working in collaboration with Intel on Linux drivers for the Intel Pro/Wireless 2100, a network card found in many Centrino laptops. The drivers only work on Linux with kernel version 2.4.23 and 2.6.1 or higher, and require Wireless Tools for Linux and the IPW2100 firmware image to do their job. The changelog accompanying this release shows the following changes:

Changes in 0.51:

• Fixed setting of Level to 0 when not connected; fixed problem with waproamd not detecting when association is lost.
• Fixed problem with connection state going out of sync with association when interface closed.
• Added ‘associate’ module parameter to instruct the driver if it should auto-associate during scans. Useful when using a user space utility for association policy.
• Reworked some of the driver init messages to be more in sync with other netdev devices.
• Fixed bug with the treating ESSID as a null terminated string.
• Added reporting of level # for iwpriv $” rel=”external”>IF_NAME get_powermode
• Fixed problem with SIOCGIWESSID returning the wrong length of ESSIDs
• Some more changes to the suspend / resume portion of the driver to try and get it stable on all systems.
• Fixed problem with mandatory BSSID filtering not persisting through adapter restarts.

Known issues in 0.51:

• If C3 is enabled, you may occassionally see “Corruption detected at 0x….:”” messages in your kernel log, followed by a firmware reset. on the website to processor.c or by unloading the ACPI processor module).