iwl3945 not working with davej kernel

[Paul Johnson]

I don't know if this is considered helpful, but the ipw3945 driver
does work for me with the newest test kernel, very well.   I posted
some advice about installing and using on the fedora list in an
ipw3945 thread a couple of days ago.  Basically, blacklist iwl3945 in
/etc/modules.d, then install the ipw3945 firmware, the binary driver
ipw3945d, and the kernel module.  Turn off "NetworkManager", run
system-config-network, and in case of trouble study the files that
s-c-n creates in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and try command line
"/sbin/ifdown eth1" and "/sbin/ifup eth0" to experiment.  Can get
source at http://ipw3945.sf.net, but there are also RPM versions on
Freshrpms and ATrpms.

pj

On 7/12/07, José Matos <jamatos at fc.up.pt> wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 July 2007 23:58:15 bloch at verdurin.com wrote:
> > This evening I tried the latest kernel in davej's repo, 2.6.22-2, hoping
> > that the iwl3945 driver would work better than the older versions in F7
> > kernels (I find that NFS/SMB traffic degrades so badly over time as to
> > be unusable, e.g. for streaming media.).
> >
> > Unfortunately, the wireless interface didn't come up at all and there
> > were some warnings relating to USB:
> >
> > WARNING: at drivers/usb/core/driver.c:1192 usb_autopm_do_devi
> > ce() (Not tainted)
> >
> > Call Trace:
> >  [<ffffffff811a2e43>] usb_autopm_do_device+0x67/0xeb
> >  [<ffffffff811a324e>] usb_suspend_both+0x216/0x22d
> >  [<ffffffff811a2eae>] usb_autopm_do_device+0xd2/0xeb
> >  [<ffffffff811a1f2d>] usb_set_configuration+0x3f5/0x428
> >  [<ffffffff811a93df>] generic_probe+0x1a6/0x1f3
> >  [<ffffffff8118a48a>] driver_probe_device+0xff/0x17c
> >  [<ffffffff8118a507>] __device_attach+0x0/0x5
> >  [<ffffffff811896d2>] bus_for_each_drv+0x40/0x72
> >  [<ffffffff8118a5a8>] device_attach+0x79/0x90
> >  [<ffffffff8118963e>] bus_attach_device+0x2a/0x7e
> >  [<ffffffff81188399>] device_add+0x3cb/0x611
> >  [<ffffffff8119d93f>] usb_new_device+0xab/0xf6
> >  [<ffffffff8119e609>] hub_thread+0x7e5/0xbd9
> >  [<ffffffff81045841>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e
> >  [<ffffffff8119de24>] hub_thread+0x0/0xbd9
> >  [<ffffffff810456ec>] kthread+0x47/0x73
> >  [<ffffffff8100a988>] child_rip+0xa/0x12
> >  [<ffffffff810456a5>] kthread+0x0/0x73
> >  [<ffffffff8100a97e>] child_rip+0x0/0x12
>
>   Funny, same problem here when connecting the wireless network (kernel
> 2.6.22-2.fc7, but the wireless card is an intel 2200BG
> --
> José Abílio
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