[Fedora-xen] Xen Kerenl + ipw3945

[MJang]

On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 17:10 -0500, Justin Conover wrote:
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> 
> On 10/26/06, Justin Conover <justin.conover at gmail.com> wrote:
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>         
>         On 10/26/06, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
>                 On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 03:07:10PM -0500, Justin
>                 Conover wrote:
>                 > On 10/26/06, Daniel P. Berrange
>                 <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
>                 > >
>                 > >On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 01:22:37PM -0500, Justin
>                 Conover wrote: 
>                 > >> Does anyone know if the ipw3945 wirelss card has
>                 worked or can work with
>                 > >a
>                 > >> Xen kernel.  The ipw3945 bits from freshprms.net
>                 work fine with FC6 
>                 > >kernel,
>                 > >> but if I boot using the Xen kernel than it does
>                 not work.
>                 > >
>                 > >Yes it should work fine with FC6 Xen kernels - I'm
>                 typing this from a
>                 > >laptop
>                 > >with ipw3945 & xen right now. I didn't use
>                 freshrpms stuff though - I 
>                 > >compiled
>                 > >the modules for current Fedora Xen kernels myself.
>                 >
>                 >
>                 > Ok, so you just ran the ipw3945.sourceforge.net
>                 stuff and it added to the 
>                 > kerenl, right?  Did you have to do anything with
>                 80211 bits?
>                 
>                 You need the firmware & regulatory daemon too. The FC6
>                 kernels seem to have
>                 a new enough 80211 stack already, so I didn't touch
>                 that.

>         
>         Thanks, I'll give it a shot tonight. 


> 
> Ouch, not only do I not have the ability to use ipw3945 off the bat,
> Xen kernel doesn't see my lan/b44 card either....

Sounds like a reocurrance (sp?) of bug 186724. I thought they fixed it
and was looking forward to trying Xen/FC6 on my e1405 (which has the
same network components you cite).

Thanks,
Mike