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

[Andrea Mastellone]

Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> On 30/06/06, Ed Gurski <ed at gurski.com> wrote:
>> My Intel Pro Wireless 2200BG required the latest firmware drivers to be
>> installed. (http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/fc2-ipw2200.shtml).
>>
>> Just follow the instructions, reboot and it will be working...
>>
>> Note: You may not see the wireless indicator lit, but as soon as you
>> connect through Network Manager, it will light-up...
>>
> 
> Are you sure that's all necessary? I have a ipw2200 system which just
> worked with the new kernel without doing any of that.
> 

The only thing to do is to upgrade the firmware version fron 2.4 to 3.0.
In the above link the drivers are upgraded, mainly to fix different bug
important in the case of the author...

Regards,

Andrea

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