Wireless Fix for IPW 2200's on Laptops after upgrade to 2.6.17-1.2139

[Charles Curley]

On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 11:18:53AM +0200, wwp wrote:

> 
> Is it safe to update the firmware package to ipw2200-firmware 3.0-2 even if
> not yet using the latest kernel? Or should both be updated at the same time?
> 
> Here:
> ipw2200-firmware-3.0-1.lvn5
> kernel-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 (customized)

It is safe to have multiple versions of the firmware files all in
/lib/firmware/. I do that by manually installing them from the
tarballs from the sourceforge web site for the firmware. Whether you
can do so from the Livna RPMs I do not know.

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