I did this, wrote it up and thought I would share if anyone can't get wireless going with ipw2200.
Just like rawhide, my instructions can flush your pc down the drain so if it breaks you can only blame your self since you hit <enter>.....
mkdir -p ~/downloads/ipw2200
cd ~/downloads/ipw2200
http://ieee80211.sourceforge.net/downloads.php
wget -c http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ieee80211/ieee80211-1.1.6.tgz
http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/downloads.php
wget -c http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ipw2200/ipw2200-1.0.8.tgz
http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php
grab the 2.4 firmware and drop it in your dir
su -
cd /lib/firmware/
tar xvf /home/justin/downloads/ipw2200/ipw2200-fw-2.4.tgz
exit
tar xvzf ieee80211-1.1.6.tgz
cd ieee80211-1.1.6
chmod +x remove-old
su -c ./remove-old
Password: <root>
Above files found. Remove? [y],n y
Above definitions found. Comment out? [y], n y
cd ../
tar xvf ipw2200-1.0.8.tgz
cd ipw2200-1.0.8
chmod +x remove-old
su -c ./remove-old
Password: <root>
Above definitions found. Comment out? [y], n y
cd ../ieee80211-1.1.6
make
su -c "make install" <--with quotes
cd ../ipw2200-1.0.8
make
su -c "make install"
reboot ---make sure the modules get loaded and you can see your device