Hi Shane,
On S.L. 4.x there is NetworkManager.  I had to admit that when it works 
it makes XP's network manager look complicated.
If you have S.L. 4.0, then it most likely is installed, just not turned 
on.  The reason it isn't turned on is that it doesn't work on all 
wireless cards.  But I do know that the ipw2200, if it is working, works 
with it.
It does scanning, makes connecting to a network a simple one click thing 
for the user.  It will even switch between wired and wireless if you 
plug in, or unplug, your wired network.  (This feature can be turned off 
or modified)
It also doesn't have to be run as root.
To get it going do

   **as root**
   /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 NetworkManager on
   /etc/init.d/NetworkManager start

That get's the deamon going, from then on you don't have to be root.  As 
a user then do

   NetworkManagerInfo

It works in both Gnome and KDE.

How to tell if it will work with your card?  Basically if your card can 
do a "iwlist accesspoints" then the odds are that it will work.

Troy

Shane Canon wrote:
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> We had to run a 2.6 kernel on our newer Sony laptops specifically for
> the ipw2200 driver.  (This was on a Centos system.)  I think SL4 would
> be your best bet.
> 
> Incidentally, has anyone found any wireless tools/applets for linux that
> make it is automated as what the XP folks get?  I'm looking for
> something that would support WEP keys and look for configured networks
> automatically.  I've tried a variety of tools and have been pretty
> disappointed.  In my mind, this is one of a handful of things that make
> Linux  a poor fit for laptops.  The others include the still maturing
> support for hibernate/suspend and the awkward steps for configuring
> external monitors or projectors.
> 
> - --Shane
> 
> [log in to unmask] wrote:
> | has anyone got intel 2200bg wifi working with sl304?
> |
> | i looked into it briefly the other day and think i
> | found that ndiswrappers crash my laptop and ipw2200
> | won't work because it requires 2.6.  perhaps there's
> | some other way?
> |
> | steve
> | - - -
> | systems & network manager
> | high energy physics
> | university of wisconsin
> |
> | thinkpad t42 with...
> |
> | 02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)
> |         Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2711
> |         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
> |         Memory at c0214000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
> |         Capabilities: <available only to root>
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