iwlwifi working anytime soon?

dragoran dragoran drago01 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 10 14:54:28 UTC 2007


On 4/10/07, Thomas J. Baker <tjb at unh.edu> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 07:40 -0700, Tom London wrote:
> > On 4/10/07, Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:
> > > Tom London wrote:
> > >
> > > > I can verify that it is not working for ipw3945 on Thinkpad X60
> either
> > > > using NM or manual....  (Fails to associate).
> > > >
> > > > Seems to get confused about frequency; reports my .11g out as .11a,
> etc.
> > >
> > > I have seen it show this for iwconfig while it is scanning through all
> > > the a/b/g channels in the background.
> > >
> > > >> From some posts to ipw3945 list, appears there are some patches
> that
> > > > put some -Wext functions into the stack.....
> > > >
> > > > I've been testing with each new Rawhide kernel, and then
> reinstalling
> > > > ipw3945 driver/daemon.
> > >
> > > Why don't you try these instead:
> > >
> > > http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/fc7/
> > >
> > > -Andy
> > >
> > OK. Downloaded/installed 2.6.20-1.3048.2.1.fc7.jwltest.7.
> >
> > I can associate with non-WEP/non-WPA network (thanks Google!) using
> > NM, but cannot associate with WEP network.
> >
> > I vote for these bits to go into rawhide.....
> >
> > tom
> > --
> > Tom London
> >
>
> It also works for me on our mac address protected access points, though
> I haven't really beat on it yet. I did notice that all wireless signal
> levels are 100% though. This new driver really improves reception! :-)
>
> So I guess the question is, is there a reason for this not to go into
> rawhide?


are you using wep or even wpa?
you can add comments to the bug I posted to help getting them into rawhide

Thanks,
>
> tjb
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