Re: 3945 how too (fc6)?

Thomas J. Baker wrote :

> > 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.
> 
> 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 for the insight!
I could have sworn I had read that launching the regulatory daemon was
automatically done somehow when the firmware got loaded. I guess I just
made that up and will need to dig some more ;-)

Patches welcome :-)

Matthias

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