Comment 1 for bug 794098

Reports of a regression:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/796336

It appears as though the following commit from upstream needs to be reverted, but I will investigate:

commit 19449afc28addded0724437c9952efb0d3efaabf
Author: Fry, Donald H <email address hidden>
Date: Wed Feb 16 11:49:34 2011 -0800

    iwlagn: Support new 5000 microcode.

    BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/780588

    commit 41504cce240f791f1e16561db95728c5537fbad9 upstream.

    New iwlwifi-5000 microcode requires driver support for API version 5.

    Signed-off-by: Don Fry <email address hidden>
    Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <email address hidden>
    Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <email address hidden>
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <email address hidden>
    Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <email address hidden>
    Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <email address hidden>

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-5000.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-5000.c
index 1f423f2..dbceac7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-5000.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-5000.c
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 #include "iwl-6000-hw.h"

 /* Highest firmware API version supported */
-#define IWL5000_UCODE_API_MAX 2
+#define IWL5000_UCODE_API_MAX 5
 #define IWL5150_UCODE_API_MAX 2

 /* Lowest firmware API version supported */