[ltp] airo_mpi vs. airo

[Fabrice Bellet]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 09:31:45AM -0500, Greg Meyer wrote:
> On Friday 20 February 2004 09:05 am, Eric Covener wrote:
> > Is it in my best interest to move back to using the airo module for my
> > minipci airo350?  Is there are any difference between the code now, or
> > will further updates only be applied to the airo module?
> >
> Well, I think the main reason is that airo is part of the main kernel codebase 
> now, so you won't have to compile airo_mpi anymore.  In my case (I use 
> Mandrake) airo in the current 10.0rc kernel works fine, so after install, the 
> wireless card works out of the box.

Yep, that's right. airo_mpi is now deprecated, since the support for
MPI350 is included in airo.c in the 2.6 kernel. Backport for 2.4 should 
follow soon. An patch for 2.4.25 is here :

http://bellet.info/~bellet/laptop/airo.c-2.4.25.diff

Best wishes,
-- 
fabrice