Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > Some weeks ago, my employer gave me a Dell Latitude D820 Laptop with > an Intel Pro Wireless 3945 adapter. I installed FC6 and tried to > make the wireless work, but eventually got the impression that one > has to be a Fedora developer to be able to do that. Nah, you can get it working with FC without a tremendous amount of hassle (it's more work than it should be, but then, so is life :). I've found that the packages from ATrpms work best for me. I installed the atrpms.repo file[1] and added a line to only include the packages I wanted: includepkgs=ieee80211-kmdl* ipw3945* yum-plugin-kmdl Then you should be able to install the right stuff via yum (from memory): $ yum install ipw3945 The last wrinkle IIRC, is arranging to have the ipw3945 regulatory daemon start up. You can do this in /etc/modprobe.d/ipw3945 or via an init script. I went with the initscript method and poached one from the FreshRPMS package: $ wget http://svn.rpmforge.net/svn/trunk/rpms/ipw3945d/ipw3945d.init $ sudo install -m0755 ipw3945d.init /etc/init.d/ipw3945d $ sudo /sbin/chkconfig --add ipw3945d Then reboot and hopefully you're good to go. I've typed most of this from memory, so pardon if I've missed anything. > Then I heard that under F7, it would be "much easier". So I upgraded > to Fedora 7 Test 4. There are some glitches, especially that the > mouse seems to click on things by itself, but I am not aware how > making the wireless work has become easier. So what exactly got > easier? Well, the newer iwlwifi driver is included by default in F7, as is the needed firmware. That part should make life easier than it is now, where you have to install from source or one of a few 3rd party repos to get the ipw3945 supported. Just today on fedora-devel-list John W. Linville asked users to try out the latest Dave Jone's kernel packages and report if they worked better than previous ones. It seems from reading that there are still numerous bugs in the iwlwifi driver (one even mentioned oddities with the mouse). Hopefully those will be worked out before too long. I've yet to make time to install F7T4 to try it out personally. [1] http://atrpms.net/install.html -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ====================================================================== Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde
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