Bug#833551: firmware-ipw2x00 in stretch contains the wrong firmware for ipw2200 in kernel 4.6

[Gregor Riepl <onitake@gmail.com>]

Package: firmware-ipw2x00
Version: 20160110-1
Severity: important
Tags: newcomer

Dear Maintainer,

The firmware-ipw2x00 package in Debian stretch contains firmware for
Intel Wireless Pro 2100/2200 devices, but the firmware does not match
what the driver in kernel 4.6 requires.

The package has version 3.0 from upstream, but version 3.1 is required.

Without the the correct firmware, the driver will report lots of

 ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.

errors, and the wireless card is barely usable, if at all.

Manually installing the firmware from upstream resolves this problem.

Please update the package so it has the correct firmware.

Thank you.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages firmware-ipw2x00 depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.59

firmware-ipw2x00 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages firmware-ipw2x00 suggests:
ii  initramfs-tools  0.125

-- debconf information:
  firmware-ipw2x00/license/error:
* firmware-ipw2x00/license/accepted: true