Axel,
I have been away on business--sorry for the delay. Following the
instructions list below, I was able to get wireless up and running on
Thinkpad t60p laptop with ipw3945 running fc6 x86_64. I added ccrma
low latency kernel and for reasons unrelated to wireless and have
switched to fc6 i386 and am encountering wireless troubles with that
OS. I will post on a new email. But thanks for your assistance.
John
On May 15, 2007, at 9:26 AM, Axel Thimm wrote:
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 09:13:42AM -0400, John Dey wrote:
Have you started the regulatory daemon (ipw3945d)?
Yes ps -C ipw3945d shows with a time of zero. I did yum install
ipw3945 and ipw3945-kmdl-`uname -r` as reported yesterday. My system
boot ipw3945d at initialization. I am somewhat confused about
ipw3945-firmware ( I can't find a yum version) or is it ipw3945-ucode.
I may not have the firmware installed?
It's the latter and you must have it installed if you did the yum
command above at that command pulls in both the regulatory daemon as
well as the proper firmware.
But! The regulatory daemon needs to start after you modprobe the
module. This is a chicken and egg problem, which is why the setup in
http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/INSTALL looks so convoluted and in fact
is often causing problems.
Follow the step in the INSTALL document to verify the driver is
working (not the build steps, but only the run steps). This will guide
you properly to a working system. Next you can experiment with
automating if for booting purposes. If you're lucky (90% are) the
modprobing in /etc/modprobe.conf will work for you.
If not, then you need to try autoloading the module in
/etc/sysconfig/modules/ipw3945.modules. modprobe, optinally sleep a
second or two and start ipw3945d in there.
If you want to automate this check out
http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/INSTALL (AUTOMATIC DAEMON LOADING VIA
MODPROBE), but beware, there are racing issues, so the suggested
modprobe tricks only work on some systems (which is why it isn't done
by the packages automatically).
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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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