Freeze? IPW2200

[Alejandro Bonilla]

On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 00:29 -0600, Alejandro Bonilla wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 17:40 -0800, Miles Lane wrote:
> > On 3/8/06, Paul Sladen <ubuntu at paul.sladen.org> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Alejandro Bonilla wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello Alejandro,
> > >
> > > > Are we on a package freeze?
> > >
> > > Yes, very much so.
> > >
> > > > we need to include the ipw2200-fw-3.0 into the main CD's and so on.
> > >
> > > Does this new firmware work with the existing kernel-driver and solve the
> > > problem, or does it require a rev to the kernel-driver aswell?
> > 
> > Yes, a new driver is required.  I am not sure if the latest ieee80211 driver
> > stuff is needed also.  You can ask here:  ipw2100-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Or try:
> >       Zhu Yi <yi.zhu at intel.com>
> >       James Ketrenos <jketreno at linux.intel.com>
> > 
> > > Second.  Can you provide some URLs please.
> > 
> > http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php?fid=7
> > http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/downloads.php
> > http://ieee80211.sourceforge.net/downloads.php
> 
> The latest ieee80211, firmware, ipw2200, ipw2100 and new Project ipw3945
> should make it into Dapper. This is -really- an used Wireless card and
> we can avoid trouble by having this included. I know that  by monday, we
> will have a nice and ready version that could be pushed into Dapper.
> 
> Please consider it.
> 
> .Alejandro

Sorry for the SPAM. Fact is that if a package can later on upgrade from
current to 1.1.1 then we can wait and then people can upgrade to a newer
version on Dapper. You all choose.

.Alejandro