[PlanetCCRMA] Install ipw3945 wireless module

[Hector Centeno]

John,

I recommend to use the packages at the freshrpms repository. They
worked perfectly fine in my laptop with FC6 and CCRMA kernel. All I
had to do was to install these 3 packages:

http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/6/ipw3945d/ipw3945d-1.7.22-4.i386.rpm
http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/6/ipw3945-firmware/ipw3945-firmware-1.14.2-1.noarch.rpm
http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/6/dkms-ipw3945/dkms-ipw3945-1.2.1-1.noarch.rpm

The last one will automatically build the module for your kernel so
make sure you have installed the kernel headers package
kernel-rt-devel

Hope this works for you.

Now I installed Fedora 7 and the module is installed automatically and
I can connect but the laptop's wireless light is not working.



Hector

On 6/12/07, John S. Dey <jsdey@optonline.net> wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I am trying to get the ipw3945 driver loaded on the latest rt kernel for
> fc6.  I have installed the driver on the stock kernel.  When I run make
> on in the directory I get the following message:
>
> [robo7@robo6 ipw3945-1.2.1]$ make
>
>  WARNING: Your kernel contains ieee80211 symbol definitions and you
> are not using the kernel's default ieee80211 subsystem.  (Perhaps you
> used the out-of-tree ieee80211 subsystem's 'make install' or have
> provided a path to the ieee80211 subsystem via IEEE80211_INC.)
>
> If you wish to use the out-of-tree ieee80211 subsystem then it is
> recommended to use that projects' "make patch_kernel" facility
> and rebuild your kernel to update the Module symbol version information.
>
> Failure to do this may result in build warnings and unexpected
> behavior when running modules which rely on the ieee80211 subsystem.
>
>  Aborting the build.  You can force the build to continue by adding:
>
>         IEEE80211_IGNORE_DUPLICATE=y
>
> to your make command line.
>
> **************
>
> Should I set the enviromental variable and re-make?  Or is there another
> approach?  Thanks for your assistance.
>
> John
> make: *** [check_inc] Error 1
>
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