Story: Initial setup of the ipw3945 on Fc6, wasn't straight forward, but after some googling around, I've figure out that I would need to switch my i386 kernel to an i686 so it could match the packages available. Initial used atrpms, didn't worked, then used freshrpms.... it would eventually started working.
Problem: After my last update to kernel 2.6.20-1.2962 my eth1 just disapeard.... no messages on the /var/messages the /sbin/ipw3945d when forced to started just complains: # /sbin/ipw3945d ipw3945d - regulatory daemon Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. version: 1.7.22 2007-07-01 17:09:58: ERROR: Could not find Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
Ups...
Solution: # cd /var/lib/dkms/ipw3945/1.2.1-1/build # make # cp ipw3945.ko /lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2962.fc6/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ # depmod -a # service ipw3945d restart
And got it back to life.
Nelson Escravana (nne) wrote:
Story: Initial setup of the ipw3945 on Fc6, wasn't straight forward, but after some googling around, I've figure out that I would need to switch my i386 kernel to an i686 so it could match the packages available. Initial used atrpms, didn't worked, then used freshrpms.... it would eventually started working.
Problem: After my last update to kernel 2.6.20-1.2962 my eth1 just disapeard.... no messages on the /var/messages the /sbin/ipw3945d when forced to started just complains: # /sbin/ipw3945d ipw3945d - regulatory daemon Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. version: 1.7.22 2007-07-01 17:09:58: ERROR: Could not find Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
Ups...
Solution: # cd /var/lib/dkms/ipw3945/1.2.1-1/build # make # cp ipw3945.ko /lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2962.fc6/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ # depmod -a # service ipw3945d restart
And got it back to life.
You will have to do this on every kernel update, unless you get the proper module for your kernel installed from ether atrpms or freshrpms. You need to match both the arch (i686) and kernel version. The same module does not work for the standard kernel, and the ZEN kernel, for example.
You will also want to install the proper yum plugin so that the kernel in not updated before the module is available. (fedorakmod is one, and I forget the name of the other...) I run the same module on my laptop, and it gets installed with the updated kernel without extra effort on my part.
Mikkel
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 02:51:21PM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
You will have to do this on every kernel update, unless you get the proper module for your kernel installed from ether atrpms or freshrpms. You need to match both the arch (i686) and kernel version. The same module does not work for the standard kernel, and the ZEN kernel, for example.
You will also want to install the proper yum plugin so that the kernel in not updated before the module is available. (fedorakmod is one, and I forget the name of the other...) I run the same module on my laptop, and it gets installed with the updated kernel without extra effort on my part.
It's yum-plugin-kmdl. If you install once a kmdl it will try to always install corresponding kmdls for future kernels as well.
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Nelson Escravana (nne) wrote:
Story: Initial setup of the ipw3945 on Fc6, wasn't straight forward, but after some googling around, I've figure out that I would need to switch my i386 kernel to an i686 so it could match the packages available. Initial used atrpms, didn't worked, then used freshrpms.... it would eventually started working.
Problem: After my last update to kernel 2.6.20-1.2962 my eth1 just disapeard.... no messages on the /var/messages the /sbin/ipw3945d when forced to started just complains: # /sbin/ipw3945d ipw3945d - regulatory daemon Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. version: 1.7.22 2007-07-01 17:09:58: ERROR: Could not find Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
Ups...
Solution: # cd /var/lib/dkms/ipw3945/1.2.1-1/build # make # cp ipw3945.ko /lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2962.fc6/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ # depmod -a # service ipw3945d restart
And got it back to life.
You will have to do this on every kernel update, unless you get the proper module for your kernel installed from ether atrpms or freshrpms. You need to match both the arch (i686) and kernel version. The same module does not work for the standard kernel, and the ZEN kernel, for example.
You will also want to install the proper yum plugin so that the kernel in not updated before the module is available. (fedorakmod is one, and I forget the name of the other...) I run the same module on my laptop, and it gets installed with the updated kernel without extra effort on my part.
If you use dkms-ipw3945 from Freshrpms the module gets rebuilt whenever you boot into a new kernel, meaning you don't have to wait for a new package to be built and the package doesn't need updated unless there's actually a new release of the module. http://moonshine.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=397
Most (all?) of the drivers available from Freshrpms work this way (i.e. they use dkms).
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