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

[Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>]

On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 11:55 -0700, Cahill, Ben M wrote:
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> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Helmut Schaa [mailto:helmut.schaa@googlemail.com]=20
> >Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 11:38 AM
> >To: Chatre, Reinette
> >Cc: ipw2100-devel@lists.sourceforge.net;=20
> >linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org; ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> >Subject: Re: [ipw3945-devel] New firmware available for Intel=20
> >PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2915ABG
> >
> >Am Dienstag, 24. M=C3=A4rz 2009 schrieb reinette chatre:
> >> Hi Helmut,
> >>=20
> >> On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 10:55 -0700, Helmut Schaa wrote:
> >> > Am Dienstag, 24. M=C3=A4rz 2009 schrieb reinette chatre:
> >> > > A new version (3.1) of firmware for Intel=C2=AE PRO/Wireless=20
> >2200BG and
> >> > > 2915ABG Drivers is now available for download from
> >> > > http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php.
> >> >=20
> >> > I couldn't find a changelog for the new firmware. Could=20
> >you point me to
> >> > a changelog or provide a short summary of what changed since 3.0=
?
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> >> I am sorry, we were unable to obtain this information.
> >
> >Would be interesting if any firmware crashes got fixed with=20
> >that release (and
> >in which situations these happened). Nevertheless, good to see=20
> >that Intel
> >still pushes updates for older hardware :)
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> 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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