NetworkManager ipw3945 resume problem

[Axel Thimm]

On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 09:49:53AM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:
> 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.

But that's not a problem, just use

yum install ipw3945 ipw3945-kmdl-`uname -r`

and you will get the exact match.

> >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,
> >
> 
> 

-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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