Intel Pro Wireless 3945

[Rahul Sundaram]

Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
>     Dear Friends,
> 
>  Some weeks ago, my employer gave me a Dell Latitude D820 Laptop with
> an Intel Pro Wireless 3945 adapter. I installed FC6 and tried to make
> the wireless work, but eventually got the impression that one has to
> be a Fedora developer to be able to do that.
> 
>  Then I heard that under F7, it would be "much easier". So I upgraded
> to Fedora 7 Test 4. There are some glitches, especially that the mouse
> seems to click on things by itself, but I am not aware how making the
> wireless work has become easier. So what exactly got easier?

Fedora 7 has got a new wireless stack which has broader and better 
coverage of wireless hardware.

Some of the details about this are at 
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/6382/1/

We are also adding a number of firmware packages and enabling Network 
manager by default in the live cd's.

Specifications are at

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureWirelessFirmware
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureRockSolidWireless

Do file bug reports for the problems you run across and use fedora-test 
list instead of here to discuss test/development issues.

Rahul