Subject: Re: Firmware errors with ipw2200 when connected to an WPA-enabled
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From: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
To: Mihai Moldovan <ionic@ionic.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       James Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.intel.com>,
       "Chatre, Reinette" <reinette.chatre@intel.com>,
       "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
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Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:05:06 +0800
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On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 10:39 +0800, Mihai Moldovan wrote:
> So, I am really curious about this, although not being fatal in
> itself,
> the errors are pretty annoying.

The fatal error is from the perspective of the driver. It is handled
transparent to the users now except the error logs.

> Another little question: will the card be supported by the new
> iwlwifi/iwlcore/iwlagn drivers anytime soon, or will the "old" ipw2200
> driver be the only one for this card?

No, iwlagn won't support ipw2200 because of the design difference.

> Someone really should update the
> documentation, at least in the kernel build system regarding this,
> currently "There is no help available." :)

I think John is working on reordering the ipw2100/2200 to ipw2x00 folder
which is parallel to iwlwifi.

Thanks,
-yi

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