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RE: [ipw3945-devel] New firmware available for Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2915ABG

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On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 11:55 -0700, Cahill, Ben M wrote:
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Helmut Schaa [mailto:helmut.schaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> >Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 11:38 AM
> >To: Chatre, Reinette
> >Cc: ipw2100-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; 
> >linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; ipw3945-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: Re: [ipw3945-devel] New firmware available for Intel 
> >PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2915ABG
> >
> >Am Dienstag, 24. März 2009 schrieb reinette chatre:
> >> Hi Helmut,
> >> 
> >> On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 10:55 -0700, Helmut Schaa wrote:
> >> > Am Dienstag, 24. März 2009 schrieb reinette chatre:
> >> > > A new version (3.1) of firmware for Intel® PRO/Wireless 
> >2200BG and
> >> > > 2915ABG Drivers is now available for download from
> >> > > http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php.
> >> > 
> >> > I couldn't find a changelog for the new firmware. Could 
> >you point me to
> >> > a changelog or provide a short summary of what changed since 3.0?
> >> 
> >> I am sorry, we were unable to obtain this information.
> >
> >Would be interesting if any firmware crashes got fixed with 
> >that release (and
> >in which situations these happened). Nevertheless, good to see 
> >that Intel
> >still pushes updates for older hardware :)
> 
> Reports from the field are welcome.

Seems to have fixed the passive scan duration issue I used to get a few
times every day, but haven't seen since updating.  Helmut fixed the
driver [1], but I'm not running that patch yet.  Need to run for a bit
longer though to be more sure of this.

Dan

[1] [PATCHv2] ipw2200: fix scanning while associated


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