Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 170715
dmesg complains that ipw2200 driver is "...using old /proc/net/wireless support, please fix driver !"
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:22:38 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050914 Epiphany/1.8.2 Description of problem: Running rawhide on a shiny new HP Pavilion dv1000 laptop: - Centrino chipset Installed are: kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 kernel-2.6.13-1.1598_FC5 kernel-2.6.13-1.1600_FC5 wireless-tools-28-0.pre9.5 Have been yum updating daily to rawhide. I had wireless working on October 8th, I believe that it was working with one of the older kernels and the corresponding wireless-tools package (I may have been using the wireless-tools from FC4 at that point); sorry about the vagueness. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.13-1.1600_FC5 wireless-tools-28-0.pre9.5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot into kernel-2.6.13-1.1600_FC5 with wireless-tools-28-0.pre9.5 2. ifup eth1 Actual Results: This line appears at the end of dmesg: eth1 (WE) : Driver using old /proc/net/wireless support, please fix driver ! Expected Results: eth1 should have come up, allowing me to file more bugs, faster. Additional info: Looks similar to this: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2005-September/msg00138.html
See also: http://www.archivum.info/fedora-devel-list@redhat.com/2005-10/msg00004.html
the driver that got merged upstream is an earlier one than what was included in fedora previously. This means you need the older firmware too. (Whatever one matches 1.0.0 iirc) The warning msg should be gone by now.