On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 12:37:29PM -0500, Craig Thomas wrote: > Jeff Vian wrote: > >On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 11:54 +0200, Amichai Rotman wrote: > >>Anyone had the experience installing FC6 on any Intel 945BGM - enabled > >>laptop? > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >IIRC there is a firmware file that needs to be installed for the driver > >to properly access the interface. > > More than just the firmware is needed, driver also and in my case a kmod. > > There are multiple rpms available from various repos: > > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ipw3945+fedora&btnG=Google+Search > > In my case I configured ATrpms, so it was as easy as: > > #yum --enablerepo=atrpms install ipw3945d > > #ipw3945d for the hardware to be recognized and configurable. This will only add the daemon, if you use yum install ipw3945 ipw3945-kmdl-`uname -r` it will add all you need including daemon/firmware and ieee80211 bits. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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