Driver update: Intel PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 1.0.2

On one of the pages at Sourceforge, the 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 many Centrino laptops. The drivers work on Linux with kernel version 2.6.4 or higher and require the Wireless Tools for Linux† The version number has now arrived at 1.0.2 and has the following changelog:

• Removed unneeded parenthesis around numeric constant defines
• Added info about WPA to INSTALL (thanks to Henrik Brix Andersen)
• Added support for iwspy
• Put in fix for Ad-Hoc mode not passing through all packets (thanks to KKH)
• Put in fix for fragmentation not working for fragment sizes between 441-464 bytes (thanks to Mohamed Abbas)
• Test fix for #586 problem with kernel oops on module unload by adding spin lock protection to ieee80211’s crypt handlers (thanks to Yi Zhu)
• Fixed #592 problem of CONFIG_IEEE80211_WPA_MODULE not including WPA support into the driver — fixed as a result of no longer limiting WPAs inclusion
• Fixed #594 problem with user rates mask causing lack of association if AP mandatory rate is masked out. We now add back in as a supported rate any mandatory rate.
• Possible fix for #597 kernel oops due to potentially calling dev_kfree_skb on an skb multiple times.
• Added code to control LEDs that can be controlled through the wireless NIC (vs. non-wireless HW interfaces) — this is currently disabled by default due to reports by some users of it hanging their laptop.
• Added some more debug messages around fragmentation logic
• Added locking around STATUS_HCMD_ACTIVE to prevent re-entry race conditions
• Moved ipw_adapter_restart to only execute on the priv->workqueue to keep keyboard errors from occuring during adapter restart
• Added CFG_BACKGROUND_SCAN to easily allow people to play with background scanning implementations
• Modified WPA logic to send WPA IE if one is set (vs. being based on wpa_enabled)
• Modified scan result logic to report WPA and RSN IEs if set (vs. being based on wpa_enabled)
• Fixed issues with endianess compatability between the host and wireless adapter (thanks to York Liu and Yi Zhu)
• Fixed problem with Ad-Hoc network creation causing a firmware error if a scan was actively running (thanks to Mohamed Abbas)