Re: [ipw3945-devel] [ANNOUNCE] d80211 based driver for Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG

[dragoran <drago01@gmail.com>]

Hesse, Christian wrote:
> On Saturday 10 February 2007 14:23, Hesse, Christian wrote:
>   
> > On Friday 09 February 2007 22:12, James Ketrenos wrote:
> >     
> > > We are pleased to announce the availability of a new driver for the
> > > Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection adapter.
> > >       
> > Wow, great news on this rainy saturday! ;-)
> >
> > The driver works perfectly, I'm writing this mail via wireless link.
> > However there are two things to note:
> >
> > The driver generates two network devices. The second one is for promicious
> > mode? Is there any chance to disable the interface? ifrename renamed the
> > wrong one to wlan0 and I had to tell my system to use eth1 for the wireless
> > connection.
> >
> > Second problem is that I can't unload the module. I get the message "FATAL:
> > Module iwlwifi is in use." even if both interfaces are down.
> >     
>
> Oh, I forgot one note: "make patch_kernel" is terribly broken. Any chance to 
> get this fixed soon?
>   
>   
confirmed on my box it resulted in deleting all kernel modules.
(had to reinstall the kernel)
(make modules in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build after make patch_kernel)
this was on fc6 x86_64


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