On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 09:49:53AM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: > On 4/13/07, Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >Steve Siegfried wrote: > >> Is ipw3945 supported in FC6 or did you have to add the stuff from > >> Intel by hand? > > > >It's not supported. > > If you need support for an ipw3945 RIGHT NOW, I'd suggest you get the > driver from http://ipw3945.sf.net. They explain everything pretty > well. The only part that is not entirely obvious is that after you > make the module ipw3945.ko, then you have to manually copy that into > your modules hierarchy, someplace like > /lib/modules/kernel-XxX-yyy/kernel/drivers/network/wireless and then > run "/sbin/depmod -a". Version 1.2 has worked perfectly for me > since January. You install the firmware package, then there is a > program ipw3945d which is a thing you run after you load the module. > As people mention here, there are various RPMs for it from sites, but > I have not had so much success with RPMS because the version of the > ipw3945 driver has to match your kernel exactly. But that's not a problem, just use yum install ipw3945 ipw3945-kmdl-`uname -r` and you will get the exact match. > >You can grab rpm's from a few places. ATrpms > >provides them (thanks Axel!) as does FreshRPMS (thanks Matthias!). > >The ATrpms are binary kmdl rpms. The FreshRPMS use dkms[1] so if you > >boot a new kernel, the driver will build automatically for that > >kernel. > > > >The ipw3945 driver is being replaced with the iwlwifi driver[2], which > >will hopefully end up in the kernel proper. For F7, the driver is > >included, as well as the firmware. From reading fedora-devel, it > >seems to work reasonably for some and not for others. (I haven't > >tried it myself, yet.) > > > >[1] http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml > >[2] http://intellinuxwireless.org/?p=iwlwifi > > > >HTH, > > > > -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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