Introduction

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 most recent version from December 22, 2005 is wm3b2200bg-0.0.6-x86.
It is also necessary to download the archive wm3b2200bg-firmware-2.3 which contains the firmware needed for the operating of the network card.
The german translation of the documentation supplied with the driver is done by Andre Stark.

Features

The driver allows the network card to act as a station of a BSS linked to an access point and in monitor mode.
The WEP is managed with keys of 40 or 104 bits for a global level of protection of 64 or 128 bits.

Device support

PCI
The PCI identifiers of the supported devices are presented in the next table.

Identifiers	Name	Comment
8086:4220	Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection

Disclaimer

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.

Installation

There is no need to install the add-on for using the driver with BONE.

PCI

Open the driver folder. Drag the file wm3b2200bg in the folder named drop driver here.
Create a link in the folder /boot/home/config/add-ons/kernel/drivers/dev/net to the driver named /boot/home/config/add-ons/kernel/drivers/bin/wm3b2200bg.
Go to parent folder.
Open the add-on folder. Drag the file wm3b2200bg in the folder named drop add-on here.
Go to parent folder.
Open the configuration folder. Drag the file wm3b2200bg in the folder named drop configuration file here.
Reboot. After reboot, you will see a new device in the Network preferences panel.
Setup your device and restart networking.

Firmware

The network adapter needs the installation of several binary code files.

Download the archive named wm3b2200bg-firmware-2.3.zip.
Create a folder named /boot/beos/etc/firmware/wm3b2200bg.
Unzip the archive in a temporary folder.
Open the temporary folder.
Drag all the files in the folder named drop files here.

Configuration

The configuration file is used to specify the wireless settings. The different parameters are presented in the next table.

Parameter	Description
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 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 according to the adapter used
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 disables privacy 1 enables WEP 64 bits 2 enables 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 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

History

The different published versions of the driver are presented in the next table.

Version	Date	Details
0.0.6	12/22/2005	Monitor mode support BSS with hidden SSID support Firmware version 2.3 update
0.0.5	01/23/2005	WEP support for privacy Open system and shared key authentication support Firmware version 2.2 update
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

wm3b2200bg, Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection BeOS driver