Re: Plea for ipw3945 for F7

On 6/10/07, Dario Castellarin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Justin Conover ha scritto:
> >
> >
> > On 6/3/07, *Agustin Barto* <[email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 6/3/07, Marek Matulka <[email protected]
> >     <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >     > I agree, iwl3945 doesn't work at all - it looses connection
> >     after few
> >     > seconds, sometimes restarting Network Manager helps, but more
> often
> >     > you need to restart your machine to get it work again. I've
> >     downloaded
> >     > ipw3945 from atrpms.net <http://atrpms.net> but I don't like
> >     this repository and would
> >     > prefer to use freshrpms version `cause version from atrpms is
> >     kernel
> >     > specific and doesn't use dkms to install kernel module.
> >     >
> >
> >     I'd really like to see a freshrpms ipw3945 package too. One thing I
> >     like about the atrpms release is that they used version 1.2.0
> >     (stable)
> >     instead of 1.2.1 (unstable).
> >
> >
> > I rebuilt the freshrpms from 6
> >
> > [justin@comatose ~]$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/jlc.repo
> > [jlc]
> > name=jlc for Fedora $releasever - $basearch - jlc
> > #baseurl=file:///home/justin/rpmbuild/RPMS
> > baseurl=http://www.justinconover.com/pub/fedora/7/RPMS
> > failovermethod=priority
> > enabled=1
> > gpgcheck=0
> > protect=0
> >
> >
> > I did  remove iwl3945 and added rmmod to /etc/rc.local to keep it out.
> >
> > /sbin/rmmod iwl3945
> >
> Why don't you just add a "blacklist iwl3945" to /etc/modprobe.conf? It
> sounds like a safer option that loading then unloading iwl3945...
>
> Dario
>

Because I didn't think of it ;)