iwlwifi working anytime soon?

Tom London selinux at gmail.com
Wed Apr 11 20:50:38 UTC 2007


On 4/11/07, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 09:58 -0400, Thomas J. Baker wrote:
> > Would anyone in the know care to speculate if iwlwifi is going to work
> > anytime soon? It's been in the kernel for a month or so (at least it
> > feels like a month) and has never worked for me and many others. From
> > the kernel changelogs, it doesn't seem like much is happening with it.
>
> Can people that have been having problems with iwlwifi try with today's
> rawhide kernel (2.6.20-1.3056.fc7)?  I've had it work for me now on 4
> laptops connecting to both an unencrypted and an encrypted (WEP) access
> point where previously that was nowhere near the case ;)
>
> Also, make sure you have rawhide NetworkManager + wpa_supplicant as they
> could be involved in having made things start working.
>
> Jeremy
>
I can confirm that .3056, with latest Rawhide bits, on ThinkPad X60
(with Intel 3945) works, but only with one unecryptyed network(
GoogleWifi). Fails with both WEP and WPA networks (I tried 3 different
ones, from 2 different manufacturers).

I BZ'ed the messages from NM/wpa_supplicant here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235247

tom
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Tom London




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