If you want the "Easiest route", restore your phone with a stock 2.2 firmware. Create a jailbroken 2.2.1 with Pwnage Tool and restore that. You'll have a jailbroken iPhone with 2.28 baseband. I say easiest since you may already be familiar with these steps rather than attempting to update the baseband directly. 🙂
Upgrading the baseband will work fine with any bootloader, it's when you try to downgrade (something that was never intended) that you need a vulnerable bootloader (in this case that would be 5.08).