FC5 ipw3945 problem on laptop
Todd Zullinger
tmz at pobox.com
Fri Aug 25 01:57:03 UTC 2006
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dpet wrote:
> I may have been misleading people. I'll start the story from the
> beginning.
>
> I acquired this Dell 9400, to replace my Toshiba (that didn't seem
> to like Fedora much) and installed kernel-2054 from DVD. Having got
> the ethernet set up, I did a yum update kernel and it installed
> kernel 2174-smp. Is this a correct thing for core duo systems?
Yep. I've used the smp kernels on this laptop with both FC4 and FC5.
> Well, to cut a long story short, I now find that kernel-2174
> responds correctly to the installation of ipw3945, but I still have
> this error and kernel panic with the smp version. Strange when an
> article covers this on a Samsung, using a slightly earlier
> kernel-smp, with no problem.
Odd indeed. I've not had any kernel panics using the driver with any
of the fedora kernels.
> Well, I will use the working version for now, but see if I can
> somehow sort out the smp in the future
Best of luck!
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