Intel Pro Wireless cards

[Rodd Clarkson]

On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 21:31 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:29:42PM +1100, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 16:59 -0800, Tim Fenn wrote:
> > >On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 11:41:46AM +1100, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> > >> 
> > >> ... it seems the the ipw2200 driver in the kernel is 0.13 (based on a
> > >> less of
> > >> 	/lib/modules/2.6.10-1.1155_FC4/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200/ipw2200.ko,
> > >> 
> > >> and then looking through the strings and seeing this:
> > >> 
> > >> 	<6>ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 0.13
> > >> 
> > >> that the current version used it 0.13.  Given that the current version
> > >> is 1.0.1 and that there's been about 8 or nine releases since 0.13, what
> > >> needs to be done to get a more up-to-date version included in the
> > >> kernel?
> > >> 
> > >
> > >go to your nearest neigborhood friendly apt/yum repositories!
> > >
> > >http://atrpms.net/dist/fc3/ipw2100/
> > >http://atrpms.net/dist/fc3/ipw2100-testing/
> > >http://atrpms.net/dist/fc3/ipw2200/
> > >http://atrpms.net/dist/fc3/ipw2200-testing/
> > >
> > Useful to know, but it still leaves the question open, why are the
> > current FC kernels (I'm using the rawhide kernels so the files above
> > aren't a lot of use) sporting such an old driver for ipw2200, and what
> > do I need to do to encourage the kernel maintainers for FC to update the
> > driver?
>
>it's been on my todo list for a while. I'll get to it this week.
>rawhide will get it in the next day or two hopefully.
>fc2/fc3 will probably be in the update after next.

Dave,

Thanks for your quick reply letting me know where things stand.

Much appreciated 8-]


Rodd