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tanis

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From: Poland / Waterloo, ON, Canada

Registered: 2007-04-21

Posts: 259

Re: Dropping ipw3945 from core

It would be pointless, as the driver in 2.6.24 is hopelessly out of date. 2.6.25 has a much more advanced and stable version of iwlwifi.

Thanks for the info! So I'm waiting for 2.6.25 to appear in testing

UPDATE: 2.6.25 installed, so far no problems with iwl3945
LED still doesn't work though, I guess the patch wasn't included in 2.6.25

Last edited by tanis (2008-04-20 05:12:51)

Lord Illidan

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From: Malta

Registered: 2007-10-25

Posts: 248

Re: Dropping ipw3945 from core

Note: 2.6.24 kernel driver iwl3945 is not good driver for WPA/WPA2. Kernel 2.6.24 use driver 1.1.17d, WPA was implemented from version 1.2.0+. Actual version of kernel 2.6.25 is 1.2.26k, and WPA/WPA2 works fine.

That is simply not true. I used iwl3945 to connect to WPA network with version 0.something, one of the very early versions anyway. I had problems for other reasons and it wasn't very stable, but WPA definitely always worked with it. How can you say it wasn't implemented, when it worked from the very first version?

Anyway, we are talking about 2.6.25 here, and it includes version 1.2.23, which is very stable (the random connection drops which I experienced in 2.6.24 are completely gone). The only thing I still miss is the LED.

Mine randomly drops with iwl3945 1.2.23k :S