Plea for ipw3945 for F7

[Dario Castellarin]

Justin Conover ha scritto:
>
>
> On 6/3/07, *Agustin Barto* <abarto at gmail.com 
> <mailto:abarto at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On 6/3/07, Marek Matulka <marek.matulka at gmail.com
>     <mailto:marek.matulka at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > I agree, iwl3945 doesn't work at all - it looses connection
>     after few
>     > seconds, sometimes restarting Network Manager helps, but more often
>     > 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
>     this repository and would
>     > prefer to use freshrpms version `cause version from atrpms is
>     kernel
>     > specific and doesn't use dkms to install kernel module.
>     >
>
>     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).
>
>
> I rebuilt the freshrpms from 6
>
> [justin at comatose ~]$ 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
>
>
> I did  remove iwl3945 and added rmmod to /etc/rc.local to keep it out.
>
> /sbin/rmmod iwl3945
>
Why don't you just add a "blacklist iwl3945" to /etc/modprobe.conf? It 
sounds like a safer option that loading then unloading iwl3945...

Dario