Bug#497593: new iwlwifi firmware available

To: 497593@bugs.debian.org, Matt Taggart <taggart@debian.org>
Subject: Bug#497593: new iwlwifi firmware available
From: David Robin <david.robin@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:33:22 +0100
Message-id: <43620fa10901110133y5a6188efibfd79fee78cba795@mail.gmail.com>
Reply-to: David Robin <david.robin@gmail.com>, 497593@bugs.debian.org

Hi Matt,

watchout, the latest firmware are expected to be incompatible with the Wifi drivers included in Lenny (linux 2.6.26).
This is mentioned in the README file in the firmware distribution (cf. iwlwifi-3945-ucode-15.28.2.8/README.iwlwifi-3945-ucode).

For example, the latest 2.6.26 compatible releases are :
iwl3945 : 15.28.1.8
iwl4965 : 228.57.1.21

Anyway, the package may include later versions of the firmware too : it would be appreciated by Debian users compiling their own build of Linux 2.6.18 or later.

Regards,
David

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