FC5: ipw3945 and kernel-smp-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5

[Mike Cohler]

Trying again

On 20/10/06, Mike Cohler <mike.cohler at gmail.com> wrote:
> dpet wrote:
>
> >After wireless worked well with previous kernels, when I update to the
> >above example, it fails to start  the wireless lan.
> >The ipw3945D claims that ipw3945 is not found, and the last line of
> >"messages" is:
> >
> >ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
> >
> >Can anyone suggest what is wrong, I how I go about fixing it?
>
> I found I had to compile ieee80211 version 1.2.15 with a modified
> Makefile using a patch from sourceforge, and also use a modified
> Makefile when compiling the driver version 1.1.0. Details at
> http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~mdc1/samsung.html
>
> In addition I took out the reference  "#include <linux/config.h>" in
> ipw3945.h in the driver directory.
>
> This seems to work well for me (with WEP)
>
> There is also information at the devel site at
> http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/ and it is worth following the devel
> mailing list referenced from there.
>
> --
>
> mike cohler
>


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mike cohler