NetworkManager ipw3945 resume problem

[Paul Johnson]

On 4/13/07, Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> wrote:
> Steve Siegfried wrote:
> > Is ipw3945 supported in FC6 or did you have to add the stuff from
> > Intel by hand?
>
> It's not supported.

If you need support for an ipw3945 RIGHT NOW, I'd suggest you get the
driver from http://ipw3945.sf.net. They explain everything pretty
well.  The only part that is not entirely obvious is that after you
make the module ipw3945.ko, then you have to manually copy that into
your modules hierarchy, someplace like
/lib/modules/kernel-XxX-yyy/kernel/drivers/network/wireless and then
run "/sbin/depmod -a".    Version 1.2 has worked perfectly for me
since January.  You install the firmware package, then there is a
program ipw3945d which is a thing you run after  you load the module.
As people mention here, there are various RPMs for it from sites, but
I have not had so much success with RPMS because the version of the
ipw3945 driver has to  match  your kernel exactly.


> You can grab rpm's from a few places.  ATrpms
> provides them (thanks Axel!) as does FreshRPMS (thanks Matthias!).
> The ATrpms are binary kmdl rpms.  The FreshRPMS use dkms[1] so if you
> boot a new kernel, the driver will build automatically for that
> kernel.
>
> The ipw3945 driver is being replaced with the iwlwifi driver[2], which
> will hopefully end up in the kernel proper.  For F7, the driver is
> included, as well as the firmware.  From reading fedora-devel, it
> seems to work reasonably for some and not for others.  (I haven't
> tried it myself, yet.)
>
> [1] http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml
> [2] http://intellinuxwireless.org/?p=iwlwifi
>
> HTH,
>
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