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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
