Problems with iwl4965 wireless
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Wed May 7 13:12:37 UTC 2008
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 20:15 -0400, Mail Lists wrote:
> John W. Linville wrote:
> > On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 08:19:56PM -0400, Mail Lists wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Are there some intel driver issues perhaps ???
> >>
> >
> > The wireless support in Fedora kernels is very close to upstream.
> > This is often beneficial but sometimes unfortunate. For several
> > weeks, users of the iwl3945 and iwl4965 devices have been in the
> > latter category. :-(
> >
> > You may wish to try the latest available F8 kernel in Fedora. It has
> > some recent fixes that have improved the situation for a number of
> > iwl3945 and iwl4965 users (but not all of them):
> >
> > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=47941
> >
> > Hth!
> >
> > John
> >
> Thanks for feedback. I have also discovered part of the black magic
> recipe requires me to do 2 more things.
>
> 1) kill and turn off avahi-dameon service.
>
> 2) kill off something called nm-applet - i cannot find where this is
> started (as the logged in kde user not root). It is not visible
> anywhere on the KDE task bar so not sure how to shut off - but a
> killall seems to work for now.
nm-applet is started by the running of NetworkMamager. However it is not
designed for kde. There one uses I believe knetworkmanager,
>
> Then the various aditional cauldren stirring outlined earlier have
> worked a total of 2 times now!
>
> Best - and looking forward to fixes!!
>
> Thanks again,
>
> gene/
>
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