Christian Heim a écrit :
Heya,
net-wireless/ipw2100 and net-wireless/ipw2200 are both kernel drivers built as
an external package through portage. The codebase currently in portage is the
same that is present in any up-to-date kernel tarball (2.6.x).
For this reason I am suggesting, everyone migrates to the in-kernel drivers.
They can be found here:
Networking --->
Network device support --->
[*] Network device support
Wireless LAN (non-hamradio) --->
[*] Wireless LAN drivers (non-hamradio) & Wireless Extensions
<M> Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection
<M> Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2915ABG Network Connection
These will also enable the in-kernel version of the ieee80211 driver.
As per summary, both packages are going to get punted from the tree. Both will
vanish around sometime next January (I'd say 30 days from today - which makes
it 21th January 2007).
And to leave those of you, who already use the in-kernel driver relaxed, the
firmware images are not going to get removed as they are still needed for the
in-kernel drivers.
On second thoughts, I'll raise a small objection to the removal. Latest
gentoo version is 1.2.0 while the kernel (gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r2) says
to contain 1.1.4. I know that difference isn't exactly huge, but still,
it's a step backwards.
On a side note, how do I tell the in-kernel driver where to find the
firmware? Apparently, it's having issues loading it.
As for the package, as I am myself a user of ipw2200, I could help out
with whatever tasks are needed to maintain this package (if needed)
Cheers,
Rémi
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