Re: status of ipw2x00

[wwguy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>]

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
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