[PlanetCCRMA] Wireless Module iwl3945

[Hector Centeno]

Hi,

I've been using the ipw945 packages installed directly from Freshrpms and
they work fine in my laptop with Fedora 7. The packages installed are:

http://moonshine.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=397  (dkms-ipw3945)
http://moonshine.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=401  (ipw3945d)
http://moonshine.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=399  (ipw3945-firmware)

The first one requires the kernel-devel and dkms packages to install. After
installing and rebooting my wireless was working (no extra tweaking needed
and also the light and switch on the front of the laptop worked) and better
than with the stock fedora kernel and it's iwl3945 module. I've been able to
connect to different public wireless access points with and without
encryption but sometimes it takes more than one try. I used the same
packages from freshrpms with Fedora Core 6 before on the same laptop and it
connected much easier.

Cheers,

Hector

On 7/3/07, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando at ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> 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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