Enabling wireless on Dell laptop

[Mark Knoop]

On 22/01/07, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've got a new Dell 6400/E1505 with the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945
> 802.11a/g Mini Card (54Mbps) wireless card. I downloaded the drivers
> from Intel's site, but I have no idea how to install them. I unpacked
> the tar, and in it are 3 more tars. I've read all the README's and
> INSTALLs and there seems to be quite a bit of conflicting information.
> Furthermore, the INSTALL files tell you to install certain files, but
> not where or even how. Please, has anybody and experience with this?
> Thanks in advance.

Freshrpms have rpms for this driver
http://zod.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=903 which is probably the easiest
way to install. It seems that livna are also working on packaging it.

You could also get the 1.2.0 version from
http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/ which appears to have a simpler build
process.

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Mark Knoop