Re: FC5 ipw3945 problem on laptop

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dpet wrote:
> I may have been misleading people. I'll start the story from the
> beginning.
>
> I acquired this Dell 9400, to replace my Toshiba (that didn't seem
> to like Fedora much) and installed kernel-2054 from DVD.  Having got
> the ethernet set up, I did a yum update kernel and it installed
> kernel 2174-smp.  Is this a correct thing for core duo systems?

Yep.  I've used the smp kernels on this laptop with both FC4 and FC5.

> Well, to cut a long story short, I now find that kernel-2174
> responds correctly to the installation of ipw3945, but I still have
> this error and kernel panic with the smp version. Strange when an
> article covers this on a Samsung, using a slightly earlier
> kernel-smp, with no problem.

Odd indeed.  I've not had any kernel panics using the driver with any
of the fedora kernels.

> Well, I will use the working version for now, but see if I can
> somehow sort out the smp in the future

Best of luck!

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