Intel Pro Wireless cards

Tim Fenn fenn at stanford.edu
Wed Mar 2 00:59:20 UTC 2005


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/

so, e.g.:

apt-get install ipw2200-kmdl-$(uname -r)

firmware will get lumped in as well.

HTH,
Tim




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