Re: Switching from ipw3945 to iwl3945 driver]

Anthony Campbell, 02/04/08 10:34:

On 03 Feb 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 09:03:03 +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote:
[...]

[...]

The ipw3945 driver requires closed-source components and has been
deprecated by Intel, the only party that has access to the full source
code and hardware specifications. The kernel developers, on the other
hand, generally don't care very much about breaking proprietary drivers
with newer versions of the kernel, especially if there is an alternative
available in the normal kernel tree.

--

Unfortunately there does not seem to be an alternative for me. I had
another go at it last night. I set up things according to the advice on
the above site. Everything looked correct according to "ip a" and
"/etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules", but nothing happened: the
indicator light never flickered to show the netwerk card was trying to
connect. This is what has always happened previously when I've tried to
use iwl3945. And I get this message:

wlan0: unknown hardware address type 801.

I googled for this and found some people on Ubuntu getting the same
thing but no obvious clue to what is wrong.

Anthony


The led function will be implemented later.
Make sure, dhcp3-client is installed. That solved all my problems with
iwl3945.

PJ


--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Nobody should ever need to patch the kernel!!
    ... The code if a driver may not. ... Modules are *required* to be built against the exact kernel ... Well at least I _can_ install system level software in Linux. ... | I don't know the hardware specifics of winmodem in particular, ...
    (comp.os.linux.development.system)
  • Re: easy alsa patches for the stable kernel?
    ... They even find their way into the stable-tree since ... longer to get into the kernel. ... But we nevertheless need to find a way to make todays hardware ... hardware-vendor is not the driver author at the same time (like in the ...
    (Linux-Kernel)
  • Re: [somewhat OT] binary modules agaaaain
    ... This is my last mail on this subject with lkml cc:ed, ... They can often be solved with some effort (i.e. Intel WLAN driver). ... > the drivers for their hardware for quality reasons. ... I personally hate kernel politics and try to concentrate on kernel hacking. ...
    (Linux-Kernel)
  • Re: [PATCH 02/12] Blackfin arch: Add label to call new GPIO API
    ... That is part of the natural evolution of the kernel isn't it - per ... driver requested, was already claimed by yyy driver". ... But requires custom bootloaders or board setup for every hardware ... For other systems - where you can have a UART on any pin - I completely ...
    (Linux-Kernel)
  • Re: why no gcc in 9.1 personal?
    ... - They licensed the driver or part of it from someone else. ... They fear that broken drivers could damage the hardware, ... A driver or at least the kernel interface of the driver ... has to be compiled on the target machine with the very same compiler ...
    (alt.os.linux.suse)