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I finally got around to getting wireless networking working on the new 700M. I had to jump through hoops first but in the end it was well worth it. Initially the Intel Pro 2200BG internal wireless card seemed to work right out of the box but I could never get it to actually connect to the Netgear wireless router I have sitting in the den. At first I thought it was an issue with the WEP settings so I turned them off momentarily for testing purposes…still a no go. Running “iwlist scanning” would list all the accessable access points.

I then read that Ubuntu ships with an old version of the ipw2200 drivers and that you should download the latest drivers (1.0.3) and firmware from ipw2200.sf.net. So I did just: download; make; sudo make install. That just made my wireless device disappear! Trying to load the driver manually gave me:

FATAL: Error inserting ipw2200 (/lib/modules/2.6.8.1-3-386/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.ko):
Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

and dmesg after rebooting gave me:

ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encode
ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encode
ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encode
ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encode
ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_crypt_delayed_deinit
ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_crypt_delayed_deinit
ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan
ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan
ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_rx
ipw2200: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx
ipw2200: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt

So…I decided that I would try the last release labled as “stable” on the ipw2200 website (1.0.0). This did the trick and all is good in Ubuntu-on-700M land! No constant power cords (my old laptops battery was dead) and no network cables…finally UNTETHERED!

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