[PlanetCCRMA] Wireless Module iwl3945

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 14:27 -0400, John Dey wrote:
> Fernando,
> 
> Thanks for getting back to me.  I was running with ipw3945 in fc6 stock 
> kernel.  I wasn't real pleased with it.  I did get it running with wpa2 
> at one point but when I put up a new stock kernel I wasn't able to get 
> it to work.  I am running a stock kernel and your rt.  If above module 
> not yet available for the reason you said I can get by with a wired 
> connection on rt and wired or wireless on stock.  Happy 4th.

So... you mean iwl3945 has been better in your experience than ipw3945?
I guess I could do either. 

-- Fernando


> > On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 14:06 -0400, John Dey wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> What are the chances of getting the following wireless rpm available
> >> for the rt kernels?  I haven't had good luck with wireless in the past
> >> running out of the box.  The above module did--even with wpa2.
> >>
> >> # locate 3945
> >> /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3945.ucode
> >> /lib/modules/2.6.21-1.3194.fc7/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211/
> >> iwlwifi/iwl3945.ko
> >> /lib/modules/2.6.21-1.3228.fc7/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211/
> >> iwlwifi/iwl3945.ko
> >
> > I was actually working on 3945 yesterday.
> >
> > The Fedora stock kernels have an extra patch for a 3945 driver but I
> > think that one is sort of experimental. I have a new laptop that needs
> > this and I managed to create a kmod-ipw3945 kernel module yesterday 
> > that
> > appears to work (together with the firmware and a "regulatory daemon" -
> > all borrowed from dag's rpm respository but needs tweaks to build in my
> > system). Maybe in a couple of days I'll release something.
> >
> > [I did not add the Fedora patches that include support for those 
> > devices
> > as I'm trying to stay close to the stock kernel and Ingo's patches - 
> > the
> > problem is that the Planet CCRMA kernel drifts with respect to
> > Fedora's[*], oh well...]
> >
> > -- Fernando
> >
> > [*] another example is the firewire stack.
> >
> >
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