Download Driver For Intel PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 1.1.2

In a Sourceforge project, a number of developers are working with Intel on Linux drivers for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200 and the Intel PRO/Wireless 2915, two network cards found in Centrino laptops. The drivers work on Linux with kernel version 2.6.8 or higher and require the Wireless Tools for Linux. Version 1.1.2 has recently been made available with the following changes since the previous entry in the junk tracker:

Version 1.1.2:

• Fix endian issue with v3.0 firmware image format
• Set the ‘fixed’ flags in wext get_rate (thanks Jean II)
• Do not conitune loading fw if kmalloc fails (thanks to Ingo Molnar)
• Add module_param support for antenna selection
• Generates a scan event after a scan has completed (thanks to Jean II)
• Fix TX QoS enabled frames problem
• Exponential averaging for signal and noise Level (thnaks to Bill Moss)
• New rtap_iface RX support
• ability to forward Tx’d packets (thanks Stefen)
• addition of channel information to the radiotap header in Tx’d frames
• allow user space to set up some simplistic filters for what data to forward to user space.
• provides ‘filters’ script to see what filters are available
• provides ‘ipwstats.c’ sample C program that will open the rtap interface and parse out the radiotap header information.
• added version string fields so the version string indicates what is configured (ie, you’ll see 1.1.1kpmd if you are using a snapshot (Kernel.. previously -git), promiscuous (p), monitor (m), debug (d ) build

Version 1.1.1:

• Filter unsupported channels out in ad-hoc mode
• Change debug level for firmware error logging
• Export `debug’ module param only if CONFIG_IPW2200_DEBUG
• Set a meaningful silence threshold value
• Enable the “slow diversity” algorithm
• Wireless extension sensitivity threshold support (thanks to Olivier Hochreutiner)
• Switch to the new ipw2200-fw-3.0 image format
• Fix script `unload’ “only return from a function” problem
• Update README.ipw2100 set_power description

Version 1.1.0:

• Fix IW_QUAL_DBM undefined problem if WIRELESS_EXT

Version 1.0.13:

• Fix DHCP broken problem caused by is_multicast_ether_addr doesn’t include broadcast ether address (thanks to Olivier Hochreutiner)

Version 1.0.12:

• Fix debug option cannot enable problem (thanks to Henrik Brix Andersen)
• Suppress “Unknown notification…” warning message
• Add signal level to iwlist scan output (thanks to Bill Moss)
• Remove the WPA enabled card associates to non-WPA AP checking (thanks to Stefan Rompf)
• Fix compile error on kernels w/ WIRELESS_EXT
• Replace ipw specific frame_hdr_len() with generic ieee80211_get_hdrlen()
• Fix rf_kill is activated problem after mode changing if module parameter ‘disable=1’ is used

Version 1.0.11:

• Fix software crypto shared WEP authentication problem (thanks to Andrew Morton)
• Stop netdev queue if h/w doesn’t have space for new packets
• Print geography code upon module load (thanks to Henrik Brix Andersen)
• Fix WPA network selection problem (thanks to Stefan Rompf)
• Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference if CONFIG_IPW2200_DEBUG is not defined
• Fix -> eeprom[EEPROM_VERSION] check (thanks to Alexey Dobriyan)
• Support WE-18 WPA enc_capa (thanks to Dan Williams)
• Disable hwcrypto by default as a temporary workaround for the frequent firmware restart problem (thanks to Andreas Happe)
• Convert semaphore to mutexes (thanks to Ingo Molnar)