Confusion Iwlwifi/iwl3945/ipw3945

[Jonathan Dieter]

On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 15:30 +0200, Frank Elsner wrote:
> I'm confused.
> 
> In my Lenovo C200 an Intel 3945ABG works. Currently using the iwl3945 driver.
> 
> But there 2 other drivers around. 
> So my question is "Which driver ist best?"
> 
>                          [ ] iwl3945
>                          [ ] ipw3945
>                          [ ] iwlwifi
> 

If the iwl3945 driver is working fine for you, use it.  It comes with
the kernel.  ipw3945 is the old driver for the wireless card, and
iwlwifi is an older name for new iwl3945 driver.

> And which impact to the name of the interface has which driver?
> I hate to rename all occurences of "wlan0" :-(

If you stick with the default name (I'm thinking eth[0-9] for iwl3945),
you should be fine.

Jonathan
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