iwl3945

[Jonathan Underwood]

Hi,

I have a laptop with an ipw3945 wireless adapter and with F7
installed, things are quite.... flakey. Looking at forums and mailing
lists I see I'm not suffering alone. So, I was wondering what would be
useful information to help debug this, beyond "it doesn't work very
well".

TIA
Jonathan.

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

> >>>> "JU" == Jonathan Underwood
> <jonathan.underwood(a)gmail.com&gt; writes: 
JU> So, I was wondering what would be useful information to help debug
JU> this, beyond "it doesn't work very well".

Well, the latest F8 kernels have a newer version of the iwlwifi
drivers; some folks have reported that it works much better for them.
It still doesn't work for me, but maybe you'll get lucky.

 - J<

[Christopher Brown]

On 08 Jun 2007 19:41:03 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs(a)math.uh.edu&gt;
wrote:
>  >>>>> "JU" == Jonathan Underwood
> <jonathan.underwood(a)gmail.com&gt; writes:
>
>  JU> So, I was wondering what would be useful information to help debug
>  JU> this, beyond "it doesn't work very well".
>
>  Well, the latest F8 kernels have a newer version of the iwlwifi
>  drivers; some folks have reported that it works much better for them.
>  It still doesn't work for me, but maybe you'll get lucky. 

You can both try the latest test kernels for F7 at

http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/fc7/

Feedback is good as this is a big sticking point for people at the moment.

Regards
Chris



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[David Hollis]

On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 13:58 +0100, Chris Brown wrote:
>  On 08 Jun 2007 19:41:03 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III
>  <tibbs(a)math.uh.edu&gt; wrote: 
>  
>  You can both try the latest test kernels for F7 at
>  
>  http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/fc7/
>  
>  Feedback is good as this is a big sticking point for people at the
>  moment.  
I bumped up to 3219 late last week and that actually made iwl3945 work for me, which it
never really did before.  It seemed to flake out after some period (maybe 10-12 hours)
where it wouldn't seem to send packets any longer, I could rejoin the network and get
an IP, but couldn't ping anything.  A reboot seemed to make it a bit better.  So it
seems like it's getting there, but isn't 100% ready just yet.

-- 
David Hollis <dhollis(a)davehollis.com&gt;

[Clark Williams]

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David Hollis wrote:
>  On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 13:58 +0100, Chris Brown wrote:
> > On 08 Jun 2007 19:41:03 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III
> > <tibbs(a)math.uh.edu&gt; wrote:
>  
> > You can both try the latest test kernels for F7 at
> >
> > http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/fc7/
> >
> > Feedback is good as this is a big sticking point for people at the
> > moment. 
>  
>  I bumped up to 3219 late last week and that actually made iwl3945 work for me, which it
> never really did before.  It seemed to flake out after some period (maybe 10-12 hours)
> where it wouldn't seem to send packets any longer, I could rejoin the network and get
> an IP, but couldn't ping anything.  A reboot seemed to make it a bit better.  So it
> seems like it's getting there, but isn't 100% ready just yet.
>   
It's been getting progressively better for me. (T60+rawhide+NM)

The 3218 kernel works for a while, then flakes and I have to reload the
module and restart NM before it works again. Haven't tried 3219 yet.

Clark

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