Wireless Card On Laptop - Help Setting Up

My laptop has a wireless card.  Wow.  Don't die of the
shock.

I never use it.  No, really, I don't.  I'm never in a
location with 
wireless access, so I just content myself with a good old
fashioned 
Cat5e cable and call it a day.

Now my life has changed.  There is a wireless access point
in my AP 
Computer Science class (or so they tell me).  It might be
time to 
configure my wireless card (right now it's not configured,
so I don't 
know if it's even in /dev, /proc, or /anything).

I know this is sort of dumb, but where would I start?  I've
never added 
a whole new device to the system before, though I'd like to
learn.

The card is:  Intel PRO/Wireless (the kind they put in the
IBM X40 type 
2386-1CU - I don't know anything other than that part of
the card's 
name - I'm sorry.)

It worked under Kubuntu, so I know there is a linux driver.

Thanks for any help.

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On 8/30/06, Lord Sauron <lordsauronthegreatgmail.com> wrote:
> The card is:  Intel PRO/Wireless (the kind they put in
the IBM X40 type
> 2386-1CU - I don't know anything other than that part
of the card's
> name - I'm sorry.)

Intel cards are well supported.  The 3945 requires
out-of-tree drivers
(net-wireless/ipw3945, plus microcode, plus daemon).  For
the 2100 and
2200 you can choose between in-kernel or out-of-tree
drivers, but you
will still need the firmware packages.

Figure out which card you have by looking at the output of
lspci, then
google, then come back here if you have problems.

-Richard
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