This replied a bit late but can confirm the IPW2200 driver works fine on a Fujitsu Lifebook S7010.

I am however using knoppix 5.1.1

user@slave:~$ dmesg | grep ipw
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.1.4kmpr
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
ipw2200: Detected geography ZZR (14 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)
user@slave:~$ uname -a
Linux slave 2.6.19 #7 SMP PREEMPT Sun Dec 17 22:01:07 CET 2006 i686 GNU/Linux

Not sure if its a kernel problem but the kernel is 2.6.19 on knoppix 5.1.1.