[Cialug] Intel PRO/Wireless ipw3945

[Jeffrey C. Ollie]

On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 07:26 -0700, Tony Bibbs wrote:
> According to Google this integrated wireless card should work.  Using opensuse it requires the ip3945d and ipw-firmware packages.  Those are installed but no  dice.  When I try to modprobe ipw3945 I get errors in dmesg about undefined symbols.  This eventually led me to thinking maybe it doesn't like the stock ieee80211 subsystem with the default kernel I have so I tried grabbing the latest ieee80211 stuff.  Problem with that is I'm not sure how to configure the system to use that package instead of the kernel's.  I tried to disable it in the kernel but there are so many other options that force it to be included that I can't do it.
> 
> So any thoughts on where to go next?

You might try the Fedora 7 Test 3 Live CD (i think that the x86_64 is
actually a live DVD).

http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents/f7-test3-live-i386.torrent
http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents/f7-test3-live-x86_64.torrent

Or maybe even a really recent live cd built direct from rawhide:

http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents/rawhide-20070419-i386-Live.torrent

Fedora 7 will have support for the ipw3945 integrated into it.  From
what I've seen on the mailing lists though the support isn't perfect
yet.  I don't have a ipw3945 card myself so I can't say from personal
experience.

I'd imagine that the recently released Ubuntu 7.04 would have some
support as well, but I'm not a Ubuntu user so I couldn't say for sure.

Jeff

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