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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 80211/IPW2200 vs. Kernel 2.6.14
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 21:19:46
Message-Id: 7573e9640511181313i303cf5ebp5a7429214340d2ab@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] 80211/IPW2200 vs. Kernel 2.6.14 by Matthias Bethke
1 On 11/18/05, Matthias Bethke <matthias.bethke@×××.net> wrote:
2 > I just noticed the new Gentoo kernel 2.6.14-r2 includes support for both
3 > the generic 802.11 stack and the Intel IPW2200 driver. I've been using
4 > the separate ebuilds for these two so far, now I was wondering if
5 > there's still any advantage to that. Any opinions?
6
7 Just beware that the in-kernel version is a couple of revisions old
8 (it is the 1.0.0 version), and will require ipw2200-firmware-2.2.
9
10 Some people have reported problems getting the driver to work with
11 their cards, but it works fine for me.
12
13 -Richard
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