On Friday, 08 December 2006 at 22:50, Michel Salim wrote: > 2006/12/7, David Hollis <dhollis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 14:31 -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > > >> > >> I had problems with it for the first 2 weeks after the release (WPA > >> would not work with my ipw3945 etc) . but what is currently on my > >> system is working great. [It was kind of interesting.. it started > >> working the day before Thanksgiving and has worked since then.] > > > >What I've found with ipw3945 is that even though you can build it > >against the in-kernel IEEE80211 stack (1.1.13), WPA doesn't work worth a > >darn. If you build it against the latest stack (1.2.15), everything > >works quite well. It would be real nice if Intel would get rid of the > >ipw3945d daemon - which apparently they are in the process of doing - > >just to make it so I don't have to have any hack-arounds for it. > > > How much difference did it make? I ended up turning off WPA on my > wireless router because the router would freeze every few hours. The > only problem I noticed on the laptop side is that it takes a long time > to acquire a network address using DHCP, and sometimes I have to tell > NetworkManager to reconnect several times. > > This is using freshrpms' ipw3945, which has a small patch that (as I > understand it) sets the API version to 1.1.13 instead of 1.1.14 Works for me using unpatched ipw3945-1.1.2 with small patches to make it build on current FC6 kernel, taken from ipw3945 bugzilla: http://www.bughost.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1155 http://www.bughost.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1151 Package is on its way into Livna. Regards, R. -- Fedora Extras contributor http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DominikMierzejewski MPlayer developer http://rpm.greysector.net/mplayer/ "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
