This driver manages the wireless network adapters Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network
Connection following the IEEE 802.11g standard.
It is developed on a Dell Inspiron 8200 with a mini PCI card. The network environment is a Linksys WRT54G wireless router and an ADSL Internet access.
The driver allows the network card to act as a station of a BSS (Basic Service Set) linked to an access point and in monitor mode.
The WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) is managed with keys of 40 or 104 bits for a global level of protection of 64 or 128 bits.
Vendor and device identifiers supported by this driver are presented below.
8086:4220 | Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection |
This driver is copyrighted © 2004, 2005 by Patrick Lafarguette. All Rights Reserved.
Some portions of code are copyrighted © by Be Incorporated.
No warranty.
Use at your own risk.
There is no need to install the add-on for using the driver with BONE or Zeta
The network adapter needs the installation of several binary code files.
The configuration file is used to specify wireless settings.
mode |
Specify the kind of the wireless network. 0 for an IBSS, peer to peer network, 1 for a BSS, infrastructure network with an access point or 2 for monitor mode. The default value is 1. Warning: in monitor mode, the device must be disabled in the Network preferences panel and be used only with the application BeNetworkCapture. |
channel | Specify the radio channel to use. Possible values are from 1 to 14. |
ssid | Specify the name of the network to join or create. Up to 32 characters. If this value is not specified in BSS mode, the adapter can join all the existing networks. |
privacy | Specify if the frames are encrypted. 0 disable privacy. 1 enable WEP 64 bits and 2 enable WEP 128 bits. The default value is 0 |
authentication | Specify the authentication type. 0 open system authentication. 1 shared key authentication (requires WEP). The default value is 0. |
format | Specify the WEP keys format. 0 ASCII. 1 hexadecimal string. The default value is 0 |
key0, key1, key2, key3 |
Define the four keys associated with WEP. A key is a succession of 5 or 13 ASCII characters or 10 or 26 hexadecimal characters according to the selected format and level of privacy. |
You can enable syslog output to get useful debugging information.
Send me the syslog file with your bug's reports.
Version 0.0.6 | 12/22/2005 |
Monitor mode support. BSS with hidden SSID support. Firmware version 2.3 update. |
Version 0.0.5 | 01/23/2005 |
WEP support for privacy. Open system and shared key authentication support. Firmware version 2.2 update. |
Version 0.0.4 | 12/10/2004 |
First public release. Basic support. Only BSS without privacy. Channel and ssid must be set and refer to a valid BSS. |