firmware updates to wifi!??
Brian Dotson
brianwdotson at gmail.com
Wed Sep 14 23:49:26 UTC 2005
On 9/14/05, David Coldrick <coldrick at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have an Inspiron 9300 with an Intel/Pro wireless 2200BG wifi card.
> This is supported by the ipw2200 dtiver.
>
> It appears that to use the driver, Breezy actually updates the
> firmware(!!??) for the device.
>
> Given that I need to be able to dual boot this machine with WinXP,
> how can I be sure that this will not bugger up the use of the device
> with windoze??
>
> Regards,
> David
I might be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure that the firmware is reloaded every
time the device is rebooted. I dual boot mine all the time with the exact
device; it works great.
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Brian W. Dotson
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