Intel Pro Wireless cards

[Rodd Clarkson]

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?


Rodd