Download Driver For Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 0.53

At Source Forge, a number of people are working 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. In addition, from version 0.50 it is necessary to work with a new firmware. This one is on this one page to find. The changelog at release 0.53 shows the following changes:

Changes in 0.53

• Fixed completely broken proc init/destruct code (thanks to Pedro Ramalhais)
• Fixed problem with new get_power not returning any string output (due to a missed line while integrating An-Cheng Huang’s patch)
• Fixed SWSUSP2 build dependency check to CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND2
• Changed read to sys_read, etc. to fix legacy firmware compilation problems (thanks to L Jensen)
• Added code to remove workqueue on PCI init error path (thanks to Yi Zhu)
• Added dvals, load, and unload scripts.
• Updated in-kernel patch to 2.6.8

Known issues in 0.53

• If C3 is enabled, you may occasionally see “Corruption detected at 0x….:” messages in your kernel log, followed by a firmware reset. A temporary work around is to disable the C3 low power state (either via the patch on the website to processor.c or by unloading the ACPI processor module).