[lug] Intel 3945 wireless on Fedora Core 5

[D. Stimits]

I've been trying to install some wireless drivers for some integrated 
wireless hardware which I know is supported, but which seems to not be 
directly available in the kernel (I'm guessing because of licensing or 
political issues). I found some rpm's, but they won't install unless I 
use a particular kernel configuration with an exact kernel version. 
There are also sources available, which the prebuilt rpm's are actually 
based on, so I know this kernel version (2.6.16) is ok with this. The 
problem is that I need to graft the source directly into the kernel tree 
(or so it seems), somewhere within the driver subdirectory. The general 
info is available at:
http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/

Has anyone here ever installed the 3945 drivers? If so, did you use the 
source by copying it into a kernel source tree? Is it simply a matter of 
a recursive copy to the drivers/ subdirectory? Or to the drivers/net/ 
subdirectory? Or did you stick with a stock kernel?

D. Stimits, stimits AT comcast DOT net