Intel Pro Wireless cards

[Dave Jones]

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