Mike,
I never did get iwlwifi working well. I ended up switching to the old ipw3945 driver.
-Steve
----- Original Message ---- From: Mike C mike.cohler@gmail.com To: fedora-laptop-list@redhat.com Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 11:15:05 AM Subject: iwl3945 - any hints with F7?
I have been running ipw3945 in FC6 on a Samsung Q35 for some time and would like to install F7 but am nervous about doing this unless I know that iwl3945 works reliably in F7.
I would like to be able to simply have a /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 file setup, make sure the firmware is there and then boot so that the iwl3945 is then as simple as ipw2200 in another laptop with F7.
Does anyone have iwl3945 working well and consistently with F7?
If so a few success stories would inspire my confidence in doing the F7 install on this machine (I run F7 on every other machine I am looking after none of which use the 3945 card!)
Thanks
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Sunday 26 of August 2007 03:39:22 disposablemk-redhatml@yahoo.com napisał(a):
Mike,
I never did get iwlwifi working well. I ended up switching to the old ipw3945 driver.
Me too. With iwlwifi, I've never managed even to activate wifi card ("wifi" LED remains off all the time). Last time I've tried was kernel-2.6.22.1-41.fc7
However, I'll try the brand new kernel from updates.
Jaroslaw Gorny wrote:
Sunday 26 of August 2007 03:39:22 disposablemk-redhatml@yahoo.com napisał(a):
Mike,
I never did get iwlwifi working well. I ended up switching to the old ipw3945 driver.
Me too. With iwlwifi, I've never managed even to activate wifi card ("wifi" LED remains off all the time). Last time I've tried was kernel-2.6.22.1-41.fc7
iwl3945 worked for me even off the Live CD (i.e. Fedora 7 release kernel), with two caveats: 1. The wifi LED didn't light up. 2. I couldn't reliably associate with open networks, though that seemed to be a NetworkManager+iwl3945 problem.
I haven't checked recently, but I think 2. has improved. I ended up using ipw3945 for a long time simply because I installed it while trying to get the open networks thing going (didn't help at the time).
Unfortunately these drivers seemed to be tied to your kernel rev. Anyway repo you are looking for is atrpms and freshrpms
You need to match the kernel rev with the drivers you need. For example, this is what I have installed:
ipw2100-firmware.noarch 1.3-8 installed ipw2200-firmware.noarch 3.0-9.at installed ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.i686 1.2.0-18.4.fc7 installed ipw3945-ucode.noarch 1.14.2-4.at installed ipw3945d.i386 1.7.22-4.fc7.rf installed
I run Linux 2.6.22.4-65.fc7
I have downloaded: ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.22.4-65.fc7PAE.i686 1.2.0-18.4.fc7 atrpms ipw3945-firmware.noarch 1.14.2-1 freshrpms ipw3945d.i386 is not kernel dependent I believe. ...and so on, just make sure the driver matches you kernel.
Another trick, you will also be prompted by yum to download the ieee80211-kmdl. Now make SURE you match not only the kernel rev of your system, but also .x86 with rest of your ipw packages. atrpms once let me install the ipw in .i686 and installed the ieee in .i586, needless to say it did not work.
P.S. I do not think you need ipw2100/2200 firmware, but I run them, and can not remember how they got there.
--sk
-----Original Message----- From: fedora-laptop-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-laptop-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Ian Malone Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 5:51 PM To: fedora-laptop-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: iwl3945 - any hints with F7?
Jaroslaw Gorny wrote:
Sunday 26 of August 2007 03:39:22 disposablemk-redhatml@yahoo.com napisał(a):
Mike,
I never did get iwlwifi working well. I ended up switching to the old ipw3945 driver.
Me too. With iwlwifi, I've never managed even to activate wifi card ("wifi" LED remains off all the time). Last time I've tried was kernel-2.6.22.1-41.fc7
iwl3945 worked for me even off the Live CD (i.e. Fedora 7 release kernel), with two caveats: 1. The wifi LED didn't light up. 2. I couldn't reliably associate with open networks, though that seemed to be a NetworkManager+iwl3945 problem.
I haven't checked recently, but I think 2. has improved. I ended up using ipw3945 for a long time simply because I installed it while trying to get the open networks thing going (didn't help at the time).
Katalichenka, Sergey wrote:
Unfortunately these drivers seemed to be tied to your kernel rev. Anyway repo you are looking for is atrpms and freshrpms
You need to match the kernel rev with the drivers you need. For example, this is what I have installed:
ipw2100-firmware.noarch 1.3-8 installed ipw2200-firmware.noarch 3.0-9.at installed ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.i686 1.2.0-18.4.fc7 installed ipw3945-ucode.noarch 1.14.2-4.at installed ipw3945d.i386 1.7.22-4.fc7.rf installed
You can avoid that (minor) pain by using a dkms type module, as provided by Freshrpms for ipw3945 at least. (Though I have noticed this has its own problem in that the first time you boot a new kernel the module does not get loaded.)
Hi,
I'm answering to myself, but I'd like to know if somebody has experienced any progress with iwl3945 driver...
Monday 27 of August 2007 21:44:53 Jaroslaw Gorny napisał(a):
With iwlwifi, I've never managed even to activate wifi card ("wifi" LED remains off all the time). Last time I've tried was kernel-2.6.22.1-41.fc7
Today I've tried with 2.6.22.7-85.fc7 The same situation. 'wifi' LED always off, not able to connect, even to unprotected AP. On the other hand, ipw3945 works OK, as always.
regards,
Hi,
on my Dell Latitude D620 I am using the iwl3945 from kernel-2.6.22.5-76.fc7 without any problem. The only issue is the led (not working anymore) but the connection is stable and fast. More stable, i should note, than with ipw3945 which dropped connections now and then. I am using it all through the NetworkManager, and my home network is a WPA protected network. Also, i updated the kernel with every release, and worked beautifully. By the way I should note:
- Suspend to ram works with nvidia - Compiz-fusion works beautifully - The issue with virtual consoles, nvidia and suspend to ram went away with the latest nvidia driver.
Contact me for details.
On Friday 28 September 2007 22:03:45 Jaroslaw Gorny wrote:
Hi,
I'm answering to myself, but I'd like to know if somebody has experienced any progress with iwl3945 driver...
Monday 27 of August 2007 21:44:53 Jaroslaw Gorny napisał(a):
With iwlwifi, I've never managed even to activate wifi card ("wifi" LED remains off all the time). Last time I've tried was kernel-2.6.22.1-41.fc7
Today I've tried with 2.6.22.7-85.fc7 The same situation. 'wifi' LED always off, not able to connect, even to unprotected AP. On the other hand, ipw3945 works OK, as always.
regards,
Hi, Luca (and Esbel) Saturday 29 of September 2007 23:43:16 Luca Botti napisał(a):
on my Dell Latitude D620 I am using the iwl3945 from kernel-2.6.22.5-76.fc7 without any problem. The only issue is the led (not working anymore) but the connection is stable and fast.
In my case, LED is always off, but I can't establish the connection to my AP. I'll try to load iwl3945 with debug=1 option enabled, and see what is going on. Thanks anyway! regards,
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