Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 128218
RFE: Integrate ipw2{1,2}00 modules into Fedora kernel
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:08:02 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9 StumbleUpon/1.99 Description of problem: Would it be possible to include support for the Intel Pro Wireless 2100 and 2200 wireless cards? (The drivers are available at ipw2100.sf.net and ipw2200.sf.net respectively) Most Centrino laptops come with either of these cards, so it would be a nice addition. There might be license problems with bundling the binary firmware, but it is packaged separately from the drivers and from SuSE 9.1 install reports it seems that SuSE just bundles the drivers and tell their users to get the firmware themselves. Third-party RPMs are already available at http://atrpms.net/dist/fc2/ipw2100/ and http://tettnang.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=462 but bundling it with the kernel (perhaps sans the firmware) would allow integration with Anaconda and system-config-network Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: Additional info:
Would need some sort of license for the firmware, really.
Is there any reason not to include at least the kernel module? Users could download the firmware themselves. There is a big difference between having to download one binary file and having to compile a kernel module. Thanks, Michel
It would need to be in the upstream kernel.
these modules have already been integrated into Fedora kernel. so the bug should be closed