Plea for ipw3945 for F7

On 6/3/07, Agustin Barto < abartogmail.com">abartogmail.com> wrote:

On 6/3/07, Marek Matulka < marek.matulkagmail.com">marek.matulkagmail.com> wrote:
>; I agree, iwl3945 doesn't work at all - it looses connection after few
> seconds, sometimes restarting Network Manager helps, but more often
&gt; you need to restart your machine to get it work again. I've downloaded
> ipw3945 from atrpms.net but I don't like this repository and would
> prefer to use freshrpms version `cause version from atrpms is kernel
&gt; specific and doesn't use dkms to install kernel module.
&gt;

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).

On 6/10/07, Dario Castellarin < dacstptiscali.it">dacstptiscali.it> wrote:

Justin Conover ha scritto:
&gt;
>
&gt; On 6/3/07, *Agustin Barto* < abartogmail.com">abartogmail.com
> <mailto: abartogmail.com">abartogmail.com>> wrote:
&gt;
>&nbsp; &nbsp;  On 6/3/07, Marek Matulka < marek.matulkagmail.com">marek.matulkagmail.com
>   ;  <mailto: marek.matulkagmail.com">marek.matulkagmail.com>> wrote:
&gt; &nbsp; &nbsp; > I agree, iwl3945 doesn't work at all - it looses connection
>   ;  after few
>&nbsp; &nbsp;  > seconds, sometimes restarting Network Manager helps, but more often
>  ; &nbsp; > 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
>&nbsp;   ; this repository and would
>  ; &nbsp; > prefer to use freshrpms version `cause version from atrpms is
>&nbsp;   ; kernel
>; &nbsp; &nbsp; > specific and doesn't use dkms to install kernel module.
&gt; &nbsp; &nbsp; >
>
> &nbsp;   I'd really like to see a freshrpms ipw3945 package too. One thing I
>&nbsp; &nbsp;  like about the atrpms release is that they used version 1.2.0
&gt; &nbsp; &nbsp; (stable)
&gt; &nbsp; &nbsp; instead of 1.2.1 (unstable).
>
>
> I rebuilt the freshrpms from 6
>
>; [justincomatose ~]$ 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
>
>
&gt; I did &nbsp;remove iwl3945 and added rmmod to /etc/rc.local to keep it out.
>
> /sbin/rmmod iwl3945
&gt;
Why don't you just add a "blacklist iwl3945&quot; to /etc/modprobe.conf? It
sounds like a safer option that loading then unloading iwl3945...

Dario