Subject: Re: status of ipw2x00
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Cc: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:55:23 -0800
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On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 14:42 +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote:

> I'm the udev maintainer for Arch Linux, and we have been running into
> some problems with the ipw2200 driver[0]. This was most probably
> exposed by changes in recent versions of udev, as outlined here [1]
> (so will eventually hit the other distros when they upgrade).
> 
> I see that the ipw2x00 drivers are listed as Orphaned in MANTAINERS,
> and I notice that 2000-series Wireless-N support was added to iwlagn.
> 
> Does this mean that we (as a dristro) should drop the ipw2x00 driver
> in favor of iwlagn, or do they actualy support different hardware? I
> was not able to find any reference to 2000-series Wireless-N chips on
> intel.com, so I'm not really sure what hardware this "Intel(R)
> Centrino(R) Wireless-N 2200D BGN" is referring to (if it is not [2].
> Furthermore, I noticed that the modaliases of the two drivers do not
> overlap, which should indicate that they do not support the same
> hardware, is that correct?

Yes, it's unfortunate but true -- ipw 2200 and the current 2200 devices
are completely different hardware, there's no overlap.

johannes