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Commit 9006ea75 authored by James Ketrenos's avatar James Ketrenos Committed by John W. Linville
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[PATCH] ipw2200: switch to the new ipw2200-fw-3.0 image format

This patch modifies the driver to support the ipw2200-fw-3.0 image format.

The 3.0 fw image does not add any new capabilities, but as a result of
image format changes, it should fix two problems experienced by users:

1) Race conditions with the request_firmware interface and udev/hotplug
are improved as only a single request_firmware call is now required to
load the firmware and microcode (vs. 3 separate calls previously)

2) The monitor mode firmware (sniffer) is now packaged with the correct
boot image so it can now function without frequent restarts.

Note: Once you apply this patch, you will also need to upgrade your
firmware image to the 3.0 version available from:

        http://ipw2200.sf.net/firmware.php



Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarZhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
parent 651be26f
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