On 02/04/2010 04:40 PM, Jiri Benc wrote:
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 22:10:41 +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
OT: does anyone upstream still look after ipw2x00 drivers?
Well, it's quite old driver and although Intel is officially maintaining it, we cannot expect new features.
Because it is surely no good sign that ipw2200 still is dependent on old (soon to be obsoleted?) interfaces,
I don't think we'll see wext with the tools like iwconfig going away soon. The old, should-have-been-obsoleted-long-time-ago ifconfig is still with us, too...
so it might be time to get familiar with wireless drivers ;)
...which doesn't mean getting familiar with wireless drivers is a bad idea ;-)
Getting familiar with wireless drivers is certainly a good thing; however, there will always be a support path for hardware like the ipw2200. It is certainly possible that someone might port the ipw2100 and ipw2200 to use mac80211 rather than the built-in hardmac. If done, that will be to support all the new features of mac80211 that the hardware implementation does not. The wireless developers are proud to support old hardware. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org