iwl3945 - any hints with F7?

[Ian Malone]

Katalichenka, Sergey wrote:
> Unfortunately these drivers seemed to be tied to your kernel rev. 
> Anyway repo you are looking for is atrpms and freshrpms
> 
> You need to match the kernel rev with the drivers you need. For example, this is what I have installed:
> 
> ipw2100-firmware.noarch                  1.3-8                  installed       
> ipw2200-firmware.noarch                  3.0-9.at               installed       
> ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.i686        1.2.0-18.4.fc7         installed       
> ipw3945-ucode.noarch                     1.14.2-4.at            installed       
> ipw3945d.i386                            1.7.22-4.fc7.rf        installed       
> 
>

You can avoid that (minor) pain by using a dkms type module,
as provided by Freshrpms for ipw3945 at least.
(Though I have noticed this has its own problem in that the
first time you boot a new kernel the module does not get
loaded.)

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imalone