;dpet wrote ;> Thanks for your efforts, but I haven't made any progress. I don't ;> understand some of the suggested reading! ;> I have tried earlier, and later ieee80211 versions, but nothing ;changes. ;> I have tried both ipw3945-1.0.0 and ipw3945-1-1-0. ;> As I also use "remove-old" during this time, I have to keep ;> re-installing the kernel. Not all convenient when I can't use the ;> wireless interface! ;> Now I have tried installing from RPMs. This only succeeded in ;producing ;> a "spin"error on logon. ;> Am I supposed to use a ipw3945-kmod or is this just another name for ;> the driver? ;I would suggest sticking with a pre-built rpm if the binaries are ;giving you grief (I've used both without trouble, FWIW). I don't have ;a clue how to tell you to get back to a clean system, you're on your ;own to undo whatever you've tried so far. :) ;To use the rpm's kindly provided by Axel Thimm, enable the ATrpms repo ;by creating /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo. Mine looks like ;this: ;[atrpms] ;name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms ;baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable ;enabled=1 ;gpgcheck=1 ;includepkgs=ieee80211-kmdl* ipw3945* lirc* yum-plugin-kmdl ;I have the includepkgs line because I only want a few of the many many ;packages available from ATrpms. ;Next, install the ATrpms GPG Key: ;rpm --import http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms ;Then, install the ipw3945 module for your kernel (yum will take care ;of the dependencies): ;yum install ipw3945-kmdl-$(uname -r) ;AFAIK, the rpms don't take care of starting the required regulatory ;daemon, so you'll want to start that up. You can put it in ;/etc/rc.local if you like: ;# start the ipw3945 daemon ;/sbin/ipw3945d --quiet ;HTH, Thanks again for the excellent help. Sadly, I'm still in trouble. I have followed the above exactly, I hope. However, on booting up and getting to the login prompt, the screen has a multi-line error and a Kernel panic. That makes it hard to print the whole error here, but it starts with: BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#0, net hotplug/2359Tainted:GF ) and goes on with mentions of "ipw handle" etc etc I can overcome this by removing the ipw3945-ucode from /lib/firmware. but I can't seem to change the error by fiddling with various things. By the way, the laptop is a Dell 9400. Any other ideas would be appreciated. DP South Australia
