[arch-general] Dropping ipw3945 from core

[Sergey Manucharian]

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:18:27 +0200
Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:

> After I discovered that my problems with the new Intel driver where 
> related to dhclient and fixed the bug, I am now successfully using 
> iwl3945 on my machine.
> 
> It seems to be working perfectly, so I am considering dropping
> ipw3945 from core/support with the 2.6.25 release (so there will be
> no new package versions after ipw3945-1.2.2-8). This is intended as a
> warning, but also as a question: Is there anyone who cannot use
> iwl3945 instead of ipw3945?
>

Recently  I was installing Archlinux on a notebook and the network was
working fine with iwl3945 during the installation, but after reboot it
couldn't find the module. Since I had no time to investigate this I've
just switched to ipw3945.

Cheers,
Sergey