Выдержка из Readme 
 ------------------------------------------------------------ ----- 
Like many modules used in the Linux kernel, the Intel® PRO/Wireless 
2915ABG Driver for Linux allows configuration options to be provided  
as module parameters.  The most common way to specify a module parameter  
is command line.   
 
The general form is: 
 
% modprobe ipw2200 [parameter]=[value] 
 
Where the supported parameter are: 
 
  associate 
	Setting to 0 to disable the auto scan-and-associate functionality of the 
	driver.  If disabled, the driver will not attempt to scan  
	for and associate to a network until it has been configured with  
	one or more properties to the target network, such as configuring  
	the network SSID.  Default is 1 (auto-associate) 
	 
	Example: % modprobe ipw2200 associate=0 
 
  auto_create 
	Setting to 0 to disable the auto creation of an Ad-Hoc network  
	matching the channel and network name parameters provided.   
	Default is 1. 
 
  channel 
	channel number for association.  The general method for setting 
        the channel is to use the standard wireless tools 
        (i.e. `iwconfig eth1 channel 10`), but it is useful sometimes 
	to set this while debugging.  Channel 0 means 'ANY' 
 
  debug 
	If using a debug build, this is used to control the amount of debug 
	info to be logged.  See the 'dvals' and 'load' script for more info on 
	how to use this (the dvals and load scripts are provided as part  
	of the Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection driver 
        development snapshot releases available from the SourceForge project 
        at http://ipw2200.sf.net) 
   
  led 
	Can be used to turn on experimental LED code. 
	0 = Off, 1 = On.  Default is 0. 
 
  mode 
	Can be used to set the default mode of the adapter.   
	0 = Managed, 1 = Ad-Hoc, 2 = Monitor 
 
  ifname 
	Rename the wireless network interface. It is not supported now. 
	This parameter was a hack pre-dating the ifrename utility and 
	has now been superseded by it. The ifrename utility can be found 
	in the wireless-tool package. Following is an example to change 
	the default name of wireless interface eth%d to wlan%d. 
 
	create (or edit) file /etc/iftab and append a line to it, such as: 
	wlan*	driver	ipw2200 
 
	then modified /etc/modprobe.conf and added this line: 
	install ipw2200 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ipw2200; /usr/sbin/ifrename 
 
	Please refer to the manpage of ifrename for details. 
 ------------------------------------------------------------ ----- 
 
К сожалению у меня пробелы не только с Linux, но и с английским языком. 
Однако если я правильно понял забугорные кракозяблы, то имеют они следующее: 
Заходим в командную строку, переходим под рута, заходим в директорию с дровами набираем "modprobe ipw2200" 
Однако эту команду bash не воспринимает. Моих познаний хватает на то, чтобы предположить, что необходимо скомипилировать ядро с поддержкой этих драйверов, но как это сделать я не очень понимаю. Если не затруднит, подскажите. 
Спасибо.