[ATrpms-users] ipw3945 rpms?

Philip Prindeville philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com
Mon Jun 19 19:57:50 CEST 2006


Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 10:10:30PM +1100, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
>   
>> I got the ipw3945 drivers to work with both FC4 and FC5. However I
>> had to delete the ieee80211 modules that come with Fedora.  There a
>> remove-old script in the ieee80211 directory to do this.
>>
>> Then simply following the INSTALL file, copying the firmware into 
>> /lib/firmware, ipw3945d into /sbin and modifying /etc/modules.conf 
>> accordingly and with NetworkManager it worked beautifully.
>>
>> I haven't got WPA working yet though, but I didn't try too hard either.
>>
>> if you need another tester, count me in
>>     
>
> Yes, please get them from
> http://people.atrpms.net/~athimm/ipw3945-testing/
>
> Don't delete the kernel's ieee80211 modules, use instead the ieee80211
> kmdls at ATrpms.
>
> Note that you'll currently have to modify /etc/modprobe.conf
> accordingly by hand.
>
> Thanks!
>   

What would such an /etc/modprobe.conf look like?

-Philip




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