Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 06:51:44AM +0000, Horms wrote:
> Mikhail Gusarov <dottedmag@dottedmag.net> wrote:
> >
> > You (horms@debian.org) wrote:
> >
> > H> If you know more, please add your knowledge below.
> >
> > [skip]
> >
> > 2.6.14-2 still enables the outdated ieee80211 :(
> >
> > Fixing this is simply a matter of disabling CONFIG_IEEE80211. This
> > will allow to use ipw2200 (ipw2100 also) drivers built using
> > module-assistant as before.
> >
>
> The complete list of changes needed to turn off ieee80211 seems to be:
>
> # CONFIG_HOSTAP is not set
> # CONFIG_IPW2100 is not set
> # CONFIG_IPW2200 is not set
> # CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_TKIP is not set
> # CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_WEP is not set
> # CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_CCMP is not set
> # CONFIG_IEEE80211 is not set
>
> Or in other words HOSTAP and IPW2100, IPW2200 and
> HOSTAP (Prism) also needs to be disabled. Is the
> latter acceptable collateral dammage?
>
> I was under the impression that upstream had
> recently updated ieee80211. Is it still out of
> date in 2.6.14 ?
yes.
2.6.15 ipw2XXX are fine and with up2date ieee80211 stack.
there we should really enable those.
--
maks
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