Patch for upgrading iwlwifi drivers

[Ben Collins]

On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 07:08 -0600, Tim Gardner wrote:
> <snip>
> 
> >> 2) Ben had trouble reading the EEPROM on at least one machine. The fix
> >> was to extend the timeout loop count from 10 to 100. I noticed that
> > you
> >> have reverted this fix.
> >>
> >> -       for (to = 0; to < 100; to++) {
> >> +       for (to = 0; to < 10; to++) {
> >>
> > 
> > Sorry, I forgot about that. I recovered Ben's modification this time.
> > BTW, Ben, could you let me on which machine we can reproduce this issue.
> > Then we can evaluate whether it's a general issue and needs to be fixed
> > in upstream.
> > 
> 
> I'm pretty sure it was a Dell XPS with a 4965ABG. I have one similar,
> though I have not encountered any problems.


Actually, it worked fine in the XPS 1710, but I replaced the bcm43xx
card in an Inspiron 1521 with this 4965 card, and it showed the problem.

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