Re: 3945 how too (fc6)?

On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 14:35 -0400, Thomas J. Baker wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 12:00 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
> > Justin Conover wrote :
> > 
> > > I've installed the 3 packages *\3945\* , but it seems that wireless isn't
> > > available. lsmod |grep 3945 shows 2 mods loaded, is there a trick I'm
> > > missing?
> > 
> > I don't have the hardware to test the ipw3945 stuff, so I'd definitely
> > be interested in some feedback and possible fixes for the packages.
> > What I've tested is the build and loading of the modules, which seems
> > to be the point where you've gotten too...
> > 
> > What does "iwconfig" list? Nothing?
> > 
> > If you're using NetworkManager, have you tried restarting the service
> > and the nm-applet?
> > 
> > Has anyone else tried to get their ipw3945 wireless to work with these
> > packages?
> > 
> > Matthias
> > 
> 
> I got it working fine with the 2798 kernel and your packages. Problem
> seems to be that your ipw3945d package doesn't provide a startup script
> to actually start the daemon and it doesn't work without it. The
> original binary blob from intel includes start and stop scripts. I just
> ran "ipw3945d" as root and it got the job done.
> 
> tjb

Thinking about this more, just running the ipw3945d as root might not
work if you haven't already run their start scripts
since /var/run/ipw3945 might not exist. Their start scripts create the
dir on start and remove it on stop. 

Drivers seem to be working fine. I was using the Linville kernels for
ipw3945 but it's nicer having standard kernels with just the drivers I
need.

Thanks,

tjb
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