Re: [Cooker] iwl3945 version in cooker kernel.

[Vincent Panel]

On Jan 16, 2008 9:23 PM, Scott Chevalley <avalon@osguru.org> wrote:
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> Sander Lepik wrote:
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> > Scott Chevalley kirjutas:
> >> Colin Guthrie wrote:
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> >>> Vincent Panel wrote:
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> >>>> On Jan 16, 2008 8:09 PM, Pacho Ramos <pacho@condmat1.ciencias.uniovi.es> wrote:
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> >>>>> El mié, 16-01-2008 a las 18:35 +0000, Colin Guthrie escribió:
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> >>>>>> Hello,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> As we are going to go with iwl by default for intel wireless chipsets on
> >>>>>> 2008.1, I'd really appreciate it if we could either have the latest
> >>>>>> version (1.2.23 vs 1.1.17 in current cooker kernel)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I don't know which version of mac80211 we have in cooker as modinfo does
> >>>>>> not report a "version" for this module. The latest upstream is 10.0.4.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Is this possible or are there technical reasons not to do this?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Col
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> >>>>>>
> >>>>> Was LED problem with 3945 cards finally fixed?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks for info :-)
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> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>> Which LED problem ? I onced recompiled the ipiw3945 module for my card
> >>>> and noticed the wifi led was blinking while searching for a wifi
> >>>> access point. I read the readme file and found it it's the normal
> >>>> behaviour... is mandriva module / user-space thingy patched to avoid
> >>>> this ? Do you speak of something else ?
> >>>>
> >>> I think he means the fact that the LED doesn't work on iwl.... I don't
> >>> know if 1.2.23 fixes it or not, but I can't see anything obvious in the
> >>> Changelog.
> >>>
> >>> Col
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> >> I have yet to be able to get any of the iwl drivers to work.  My laptop
> >> (hp dv9500) came with a 4965 card and I could get it to work only with
> >> the ndiswrapper driver, but only when connecting to unsecure access
> >> points.
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> >> I had to remove the 4965 card and put in a 3945 card and use the ipw3945
> >> to get consistent wifi with unsecured and secured access points.
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> > for me 4965 is working somehow.. i can't use dhcp as it doesn't handle
> > dhcp request.. also on heavy traffic (like torrent or other p2p
> > programs) it will just die (using 2008.0 and not too happy with it :()
> >> Even if we standardize on the iwlwifi driver, I hope the ipw3945 driver
> >> is still going to be available because I don't have much hope that the
> >> iwlwifi stuff will work for me.  :)
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> >> Scott
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> > --
> > Sander Lepik
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> I had that same issue too at one point... any heavy traffic and the
> connect just dies but doesn't disconnect... very annoying....
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> I didn't try using a static address, though...
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Hi, seems like iwl3945 doesn't work for me either on cooker (I own an
intel 3945). wpa_supplicant shows a lot of "operation not permited"
but unencrypted wifi doesn't work either. It used to work 6 months ago
on my configuration (2008 beta 1), though... Like for 2008 beta 1, I
get two wifi devices : wmaster0 renamed to eth1 by udev and wlan0
which is renamed to wlan0_rename for unknown reasons. I know wmaster0
is a dummy device (can't do much with it) but even trying to configure
wlan0 doesn't succeed (AP seems to be found from time to time, but
DHCP requests always fail).

Givent the many problems I've read in this thread, I think it's the
good time to think twice about using iwl3945 by default... (ipw3945
works like a charm for me)