[lug] Intel 3945 wireless on Fedora Core 5

[Dan Ferris]

I tried installing them from source on an Acer laptop.  They require an 
ieee80211 stack that is newer than the one that comes with FC5's latest 
kernel. 

So I installed with the ieee80211 that it wanted and had loads of 
problems with errors concerning undefined symbols.

So I got pissed off and gave up and installed the RPMS that you can find 
from atrpms.net and set the kernel on the laptop to never update.

Good luck.

Dan

D. Stimits wrote:
> 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
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