Driver Update: Intel PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 1.0.10

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 2.6.4 or higher and require the Wireless Tools for Linux. Version 1.0.10 has been available for a few days with the following changes:

Version 1.0.10:

• Fix a QoS send_command argument switch problem (thanks to Henrik Brix Andersen)
• Fix a variable referenced after kfree() bug

Version 1.0.9:

• Scale firmware loading watchdog with the firmware size (thanks to Peter Jones)
• Add module parameter to enable/disable roaming
• Make LED blinking frequency independ of HZ (thanks to Clemens Buchacher)
• Replace HZ calculation with jiffies_to_msec()
• Add LEAP authentication algorithm support
• Mask out the WEP_KEY command dump from debug log for security reason (thanks to Nick Kralevich)
• Fixed indirect SRAM/register 8/16-bit write routines for non-dword-aligned destination addresses
• Fixed sw_reset doesn’t clear the static essid
• Fix a slab corruption problem caused by ipw2200 error log buffer incorrect calculation
• Disallow direct scanning when device is down (thanks to Pekka Enberg)
• Fixed “iwspy ethx off” causes kernel panic
• Fixed ipw2200 returns NETDEV_TX_BUSY even if queue is not full

Version 1.0.8:

• Added channel support for ipw2200 cards identified as ‘ZZR’
• Fixed problem with not being able to send broadcast packets.
• Fixed older Wireless Extension compatibility