On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 10:13 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > Dan, > > FYI, for kicks I decided to install and try the ipw3945 drivers > on my F7t4 system. I installed ipw3945 packages from DAG with > a few changes: > > * I installed version 1.7.22 of the ipw3945 daemon (no change) > * I updated the firmware from version 1.13 to 1.14.2 > * I added the ipw3845-oops-4 patch from the 1.2.1 test release to > the 1.2.0 dkms package from DAG.
Ok, so this is the older "softmac" driver, right? Not the new mac80211-based driver? "softmac" drivers are known to work better because they've had a much longer time to bake than mac80211 has. Dan > With this combination my "eth1" interface is working quite > nicely. It connected right away to my 802.11(a) network > using WEP and it seems pretty durn stable (once I figured out > how to stop the iwlwifi driver from loading). I'll continue > to play with it to see for sure, but at this point I'm > pretty happy with it. > > Got any suggestions for a good long-term network test? > > If this continues I might decide to take the new machine with > me and I'll see how well it works on a non-broadcast SSID with > non-encrypted network. We'll see. I still have a lot more > configuration to do before I can migrate my desktop to the new > machine. Don't know if I'll have the time to do all that in the > next 26 hours. > > -derek > _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
