ipw2200 and network manager

[Chris Ricker]

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Dan Williams wrote:

> This is really a kernel-side issue, specifically in drivers.  Drivers
> currently call request_firmware() and get an error when the firmware is
> not found.  Most drivers these days simply print a message to the
> console/syslog and give up.  Were there a way to notify user-space that
> there was missing firmware, then we could intelligently inform the user
> about this issue.  David Zeuthen (of HAL fame) knows about this issue
> and he and I have discussed it before.  Its something people are
> thinking about and planning for, but its probably a 2.6.13 thing at the
> earliest.
> 
> At the moment, there's really not much you can do other than
> screenscraping the logs and string matching driver messages.

Can links to the IPW2100 / IPW2200 firmware be put in the Release Notes?

later,
chris