ipw2200 driver in kernels 3+

[Frank Langille]

Hi, my apologies if I am sending this email to the wrong place.

I recently started toying with an old Dell laptop that uses the very
old ipw2200 intel network driver/firmware mentioned above.

I think support for this item remains in the kernel, as indicated by
the continued existence of
/linux/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2X00/ipw2200.c and ipw2200.h and
corresponding firmware. However, the menuconfig option to select this
driver seems to have disappeared sometime after kernel 3.4.104, which
is the last longterm version I can see that allows me to include the
driver in my build.

Is it possible to have the option made available again? I realize the
request is trivial but think it's worth mentioning, having lost a few
hairs trying to understand what was going on :)

Cheers,

Frank
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[Stanislav Yakovlev]

Hello Frank,

... the menuconfig option to select this
driver seems to have disappeared sometime after kernel 3.4.104, which
is the last longterm version I can see that allows me to include the
driver in my build.
Is it possible to have the option made available again?

Yes it is, to do so you need to enable old wireless extensions support
(CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT), Network support-> Wireless-> cfg80211 wireless
configuration API -> cfg80211 wireless extension computability.

Stanislav.
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