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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
