Intel Pro Wireless 3945

Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
Mon May 14 21:51:04 UTC 2007


On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 04:29:47PM -0400, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
>  Some weeks ago, my employer gave me a Dell Latitude D820 Laptop with
> an Intel Pro Wireless 3945 adapter. I installed FC6 and tried to make
> the wireless work, but eventually got the impression that one has to
> be a Fedora developer to be able to do that.

Not really, just enable ATrpms and use

yum install ipw3945 ipw3945-kmdl-`uname -r`

and that's already all.

>  Then I heard that under F7, it would be "much easier". So I upgraded
> to Fedora 7 Test 4. There are some glitches, especially that the mouse
> seems to click on things by itself, but I am not aware how making the
> wireless work has become easier. So what exactly got easier?

The (old) ipw3945 driver still works and is available at ATrpms (for
F7) in case the in-kernel one doesn't.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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