Comment 5 for bug 973241

Thanks for the rip regarding nl80211/wext - I modified the code to not try nl80211 first and just use wext.

seems to work. Uploading packages here - https://launchpad.net/~jools/+archive/ipw2200

Would be nice if network manager could have a workaround to check for this device and force wext or something, as I doubt the kernel fix will be done in time.