Return-path: Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:2354 "EHLO mga01.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753451Ab2A3Pfr (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:35:47 -0500 Subject: Re: status of ipw2x00 From: wwguy To: Tom Gundersen Cc: Johannes Berg , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Kay Sievers In-Reply-To: <1327935323.3630.3.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> References: (sfid-20120130_144316_998822_69311B85) <1327935323.3630.3.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:28:12 -0800 Message-ID: <1327937292.14072.8.camel@wwguy-ubuntu> (sfid-20120130_163601_739692_A130809D) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Tom, On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 06:55 -0800, Johannes Berg wrote: > 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 is correct, 2200 series are our latest release which using mac80211(softMAC) approach. it is different from ipw2200, sorry. Thanks Wey >