Re: FC5: ipw3945 and kernel-smp-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5e:

[d p]

> dpet wrote:
> > Aborting the build.  You can force the build to continue by adding:
> >  IEEE80211_IGNORE_DUPLICATE=y
> >
> > to your make command line.
> >
> > Thanks for your help so far. Sorry I haven't worked it out.
>
> I did indeed did add the line IEEE80211_IGNORE_DUPLICATE=y to the make
> command.
>
> Try it and see if it works...
>
> --
>
> mike

I have tried it. I hope I did everything as instructed.  I wanted to
get an answer to you quickly, so I haven't had time to analyse it fully.
suffice to say it "makes" with a list if ieee80211 warnings, and doesn't
find the afterwards.  These entries are in "messages".

Oct 23 07:54:16 dell kernel: ipw3945: no version for
"ieee80211_wx_get_encodeext" found: kernel tainted.
Oct 23 07:54:16 dell kernel: ipw3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945 Network
Connection driver for Linux, 1.1.0d
Oct 23 07:54:16 dell kernel: ipw3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel
Corporation
Oct 23 07:54:16 dell kernel: ipw3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless
3945ABG Network Connection
Oct 23 07:54:21 dell kernel: ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol
struct_module

I should repeat that I did not get the patch to ipw3945 to work.

Thanks again

DP
Adelaide South Australia

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FC5: ipw3945 and kernel-smp-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5e:

[Robert Locke]

I haven't followed this whole thread but if you simply want the card to
work, I must admit to having great success with the packages from
ATrpms.net.  It usually takes Axel up to a day to have the packages
ready, but once they are released they have, so far, simply worked....

I currently have:
> # rpm -qa *ipw3945*
> ipw3945-ucode-1.13-2.at
> ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5smp-1.1.0-13.fc5.at
> ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5smp-1.1.0-13.fc5.at
> ipw3945d-1.7.22-4.at
> ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5smp-1.1.0-13.fc5.at
>
> # rpm -qa ieee*
> ieee80211-kmdl-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5smp-1.2.15-14.fc5.at
> ieee80211-kmdl-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5smp-1.2.15-14.fc5.at
> ieee80211-1.2.15-14.fc5.at
> ieee80211-kmdl-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5smp-1.2.15-14.fc5.at

The only problem was the standard race condition on the "lovely"
userspace daemon and my use of NetworkManager....

If you are doing this as an exercise in compiling kernel modules, then
perhaps, if you grabbed Axel's src.rpm you might notice what "patching"
he has or has not had to do....

Hope that might help,

--Rob