Re: Wireless Fix for IPW 2200's on Laptops after upgrade to 2.6.17-1.2139

From: Matthew Saltzman <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:45:45 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Jonathan Underwood wrote:

On 30/06/06, Andrea Mastellone <andrea.mastellone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The only thing to do is to upgrade the firmware version fron 2.4 to 3.0.
In the above link the drivers are upgraded, mainly to fix different bug
important in the case of the author...

Yes - that was my experience, upgrade to version 3 of the firmware
and everything else works. None of the other stuff seems to be
necessary.

Ed - you might consider marking the other stuff as probably
unecessary, rather than risk encouraging people to do things they
don't need to.

Ed's not the author. I have forwarded this suggestion to him.

Jonathan.

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References:
- Wireless Fix for IPW 2200's on Laptops after upgrade to 2.6.17-1.2139
  - From: Ed Gurski
- Re: Wireless Fix for IPW 2200's on Laptops after upgrade to 2.6.17-1.2139
  - From: Jonathan Underwood
- Re: Wireless Fix for IPW 2200's on Laptops after upgrade to 2.6.17-1.2139
  - From: Andrea Mastellone
- Re: Wireless Fix for IPW 2200's on Laptops after upgrade to 2.6.17-1.2139
  - From: Jonathan Underwood

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