-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've seen some posts on the message boards from users with ipw2200 cards and the new kernel having some troubles.
First off most of the version of ipw2200 in the kernel is 1.0.0 which is rather old. Reading over at ipw's site is seems that they're not going to support patching the kernel with development versions. So we'll be stuck with this until they release 1.1.0 when ever that is. I probably speak for most ipw2200 users here, at least ones who use wpa_supplicant when I say that ipw2000 v1.0.0 kinda sucks. I'd like to see ipw2200 and ieee80211 taken back out of the stock arch kernel and put back into packages the way it was with 2.6.13, at least until newer version make their way into the kernel. But I'm not sure if that falls in line with the arch way or the direction the devs want to go. Not that it matters much to me because I just roll my own the way I like and am off on my merry way, but I'm sure there are others who would very much like for this to be sorted out. Also the ipw2200 package that is currently in extra, even though it is still called ipw2200 1.0.8 now only contains version 2.4 of the firmware, not the ipw2200 driver. Could the packge be renamed appropriately? Referring to this post, http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=17130&highlight=ipw2200 the version of the driver in the kernel requires version 2.2 of the firmware, and isn't happy with 2.4. I'd like to know what the dev's stance on this is and which direction they plan to take. If they're going to stick with the version thats in the kernel then I'll probably start ipw2200-devel and iee80211-devel packages in the AUR for users like myself who'd rather use the newer versions. Though it might be nice if a trusted user would take this up so the packages would make it into community. I've also edited the wpa_supplicant page on the wiki with instructions on how to get the latest versions back for anyone who wants to. I pasted the old pkgbuilds from extra there as well since they've been removed from abs. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wpa_supplicant#IPW2200.2C_Kernel_2.6.14.2C_and_wpa_supplicant - -- - -andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] gpg key: http://home.comcast.net/~phydeaux37/phy_pub_key.txt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDpdn5Z+VUs8yzYV8RAsL+AJ9ivQBgvvhshOuk+OzF5yhWNXUbLACg2HTb 97vBvlzPJwZf0gr3AVZFWzo= =NYCs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
