I'm trying to make work my wireless network card Intel 2200BG in my laptop Acer Travelmate 4002WLMI.I tried so far:$ sudo lshw -C network*-network:1       description: Wireless interface       product: PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection       vendor: Intel Corporation       physical id: 4       bus info: pci@0000:02:04.0       logical name: eth1       version: 05       serial: 00:0e:35:b0:a7:88       width: 32 bits       clock: 33MHz       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ipw2200 driverversion=1.2.2kmprq firmware=ABG:9.0.5.27 (Dec 12 2007) latency=64 link=no maxlatency=24 mingnt=3 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg       resources: irq:10 memory:d0208000-d0208fff$ sudo modprobe ipw2200 $ dmesg | grep ipw[   12.087836] libipw: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13[   12.087839] libipw: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>[   12.209561] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2kmprq[   12.209566] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation[   12.335295] ipw2200 0000:02:04.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKB] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10[   12.335329] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection[   12.652808] ipw2200: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On:[   12.667645] ipw2200: Detected geography ZZM (11 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)[   55.212245] ipw2200: Failed to send POWER_MODE: Command timed out.[   57.368256] ipw2200: Failed to send POWER_MODE: Command timed out.orsudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essentialwget http://aceracpi.googlecode.com/files/acer_acpi-0.11.1.tar.bz2tar -xvjf acer_acpi-0.11.1.tar.bz2cd acer_acpi-0.11.1sudo make # this command never endsor to search hereuseful information:$ uname -r3.2.0-24-generic$ sudo rfkill list0: phy0: Wireless LAN        Soft blocked: no        Hard blocked: nodistribution : Ubuntu 12.04 LTSDo you know how to solve this?Should I further try to get my wireless card work or is this hopeless and I should give this up?
Driver for Intel 2200BG wireless network card
networking;drivers;hardware;wifi;networkcard
ipw2200 cards should work just fine under Linux (judging from your kernel you run Ubuntu?). The driver is correct too and it seems not to complain about missing firmware either (you should have some files in /lib/firmware/ called ipw2*.ko).I remember an old TravelMate (with the same Intel card) had a hardware switch to turn off the WiFi. Even if rfkill reports no, did you check it?BTW, you do not need aceracpi, your kernel should have acer-wmi which is the in-kernel successor of aceracpi.