Re: 3945 how too (fc6)?

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 10:26:18AM +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
> 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 ;-)

This is a rather unsolved part, because it needs to start after/during
the initialization of the kernel modules. There are some modprobe
sniplets in the tarball, but then you trigger a racing.

> Patches welcome :-)

Gentoo did it by some udev magic, check there for patches. I gave up
and I don't have the hardware to check the racings myself (but even
people with the hardware seem to have troubles getting this automated)
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

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