In 5100 and 1100 series Inspirons Intel 2915abg cards work MUCH cooler than the original Broadcoms, don't choke up in hot weather like the original Dell cards and don't require ndiswrapper. (All of 2 Notebooks were tested outdoors at 98 deg F ambient. Dropouts occured in both Centos 4.4 & XP on these dual boot notebooks with the Dell Mini-PCI's, none with 2915's).
The only problem is that there are no wireless stats showing up in /proc/net/wireless (running wpa2, although that shouldn't make a difference). The /proc/net/wireless file claims that the Extensions are at Version 18 which should include the ipw_get_wireless_stats() call.
Dmesg tells me nothing of interest about this (admittedly noncritical) issue.
What am I missing here? Is the appropriate version of ipw-firmware needed other other than 2.4 or 3.0 ?
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