Failure to load ipw3945 drivers

[Todd Zullinger]

John Dey wrote:
> I installed fc6 i386.  Installed 'yum install ipw3945
> ipw3945-kmdl-`uname -r`' and followed the install instructions give
> in `http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/INSTALL'

What part(s) of those instructions did you follow?  There's not much
of them that are needed if you enabled ATrpms and installed the
drivers as you have done.

The main thing to do is to enable the regulatory daemon to start,
either a)via modprobe, b) in rc.local, or c) as a service.

I've used option c now for a while along with Axel's packages and
it's working great on the FC6 laptop.

I used the init script from another repo:

    http://svn.rpmforge.net/svn/trunk/rpms/ipw3945d/ipw3945d.init

Download that and install it in /etc/init.d as root:

    # install -m0755 ipw3945d.init /etc/init.d/ipw3945d
    # chkconfig --add ipw3945d

Restart your system and the daemon should start at the right time.

The errors you're getting look like the sort of thing I got a few
times when I compiled the drivers manually against one version of
ieee80211 and then tried to run it with another version.  Using the
ATrpms packages, that shouldn't happen.

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