[arch-general] Dropping ipw3945 from core

Sergey Manucharian sergey.manucharian at rmico.com
Mon Mar 31 08:50:11 EDT 2008


On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:17:45 +0200
Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:

> Michael Schaefer schrieb:
> > Sergey Manucharian wrote:
> >> 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.
> > 
> > Exactly the same here.
> > 
> > kr
> >     Michael
> > 
> 
> The module is installed by default with (arch-)kernel 2.6.24 and
> newer. Did you guys install the firmware?
> 

Most probably that was the problem, I cannot check it right now. But
the think that the installer put "iwl3945" into MODULES line of rc.conf
is disappointing people - they think that everything is already done...
Anyway, thanks for the hint!

Cheers,
Sergey





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