On 11/27/06, Erik Hemdal <ehemdal@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: "Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: How does FC run on Dell Insiration? . . . . > On 27/11/06, Terry Snyder <terryjr386@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Intel PRO/Wireless 3945abg WLAN Mini-Card is the best option. Intel > > has the Linux drivers on their website. > > Thanks. I saw that and changed the order immediately. It cost me > another $24, but that's well worth it to keep me away from > ndiswrapper. I vote with my pocketbook, and if $24 say "support > linux", then I'll pay it (and happily did). > > Dotan Cohen Another vote for the Intel cards. There are some recent postings about getting these cards working. It's not transparent -- you have to have the proper firmware for the Intel card -- but it isn't too hard to get this going. As has been mentioned elsewhere, Broadcom doesn't provide open source drivers. As I understand it, Intel has to do it this way so that they can have an open-source driver and still maintain compliance with radio-interference regulations. I'm not an expert about the rules, but I have seen RF interference cause some really difficult problems at work, so I don't minimize that requirement. I've recently been dealing with its sister card, the 2915ABG which uses a similar driver scheme as the 3945. The Intel documents that I found recommended a newer version of firmware than what is available via yum. I'd appreciate hearing about your experience in setting it up. Erik -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
I followed all of the instructions on http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/ for the Intel Proset Wireless card. There was a firmware package that was part of the download. So far I haven't been playing with it enough to get the cards drivers to load on boot with out having to manually run the load script. If anyone knows how to get it to load at startup I would like to here it. I have added some things to the modprobe.conf file and the rc.local file but it still doesn't run the script. The main reason I switched was I couldn't run the nVidia driver from livna and Ndiswrapper for the Dell Truemobile 1390 card at the same time. -- Terry Snyder Jr Computer Support Specialist http://www.personal.psu.edu/tes215 Linux (Red Hat, Fedora Core), Windows, Mac Fedora Core 5 3 users, load average: 0.19, 0.30, 0.28
