Ipw3945 - Revision history

Tonko at 16:27, 12 July 2010

2010-07-12T16:27:59Z

Tonko at 16:26, 12 July 2010

2010-07-12T16:26:24Z

Dorfsmay at 15:45, 12 July 2010

2010-07-12T15:45:22Z

Fefulin: /* Packages */ debian wiki for Debian stable lenny

2009-05-13T07:11:26Z

‎Packages: debian wiki for Debian stable lenny

Yogism at 22:07, 14 August 2008

2008-08-14T22:07:48Z

Yogism at 22:03, 14 August 2008

2008-08-14T22:03:03Z

Pez252 at 03:40, 21 May 2008

2008-05-21T03:40:58Z

Spuk: Updated Mandriva information

2008-03-13T15:46:45Z

Updated Mandriva information

Jaskiern: /* See also */

2008-02-29T01:06:32Z

‎See also

Jaskiern at 04:35, 27 February 2008

2008-02-27T04:35:36Z

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		+	{{WARN\|This project has been deprecated by Intel in favor of the newer open-source [[Iwlwifi]] driver. The information below is old and should no longer be relied upon.}}
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	The most recent revision of the Intel [[Centrino]] platform utilizes a new generation of wireless networking device connected to the system via '''PCI-E''', and not PCI (like the [[ipw2200]]-line used to do). Therefore, a new driver must be used. As of February 26, 2008, the project's code ([http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/detail_desc.aspx?ProductID=2259&DwnldID=10315&agr=Y Stable Release 1.2.0]) depends on a '''binary-only, proprietary''' user-space-daemon communicating with the driver via sysfs. It is '''not possible''' to operate this device with Free Software exclusively at the moment. The license-terms the daemon is released under prohibit reverse-engineering of the communication-protocol; this will hopefully not hold developers outside the US, where clauses like this one are not enforceable, from re-implementing a free variant of some sort.		The most recent revision of the Intel [[Centrino]] platform utilizes a new generation of wireless networking device connected to the system via '''PCI-E''', and not PCI (like the [[ipw2200]]-line used to do). Therefore, a new driver must be used. As of February 26, 2008, the project's code ([http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/detail_desc.aspx?ProductID=2259&DwnldID=10315&agr=Y Stable Release 1.2.0]) depends on a '''binary-only, proprietary''' user-space-daemon communicating with the driver via sysfs. It is '''not possible''' to operate this device with Free Software exclusively at the moment. The license-terms the daemon is released under prohibit reverse-engineering of the communication-protocol; this will hopefully not hold developers outside the US, where clauses like this one are not enforceable, from re-implementing a free variant of some sort.
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−	~~{{NOTE\|This project has been deprecated by Intel in favor of the newer open-source [[Iwlwifi]] driver.}}~~

	== External Discussion ==		== External Discussion ==

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 The most recent revision of the Intel [[Centrino]] platform utilizes a new generation of wireless networking device connected to the system via '''PCI-E''', and not PCI (like the [[ipw2200]]-line used to do). Therefore, a new driver must be used.  As of February 26, 2008, the project's code ([http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/detail_desc.aspx?ProductID=2259&DwnldID=10315&agr=Y Stable Release 1.2.0]) depends on a '''binary-only, proprietary''' user-space-daemon communicating with the driver via sysfs. It is '''not possible''' to operate this device with Free Software exclusively at the moment. The license-terms the daemon is released under prohibit reverse-engineering of the communication-protocol; this will hopefully not hold developers outside the US, where clauses like this one are not enforceable, from re-implementing a free variant of some sort.
-This project has been deprecated by Intel in favor of the newer [[Iwlwifi]] driver.
+{{NOTE|This project has been deprecated by Intel in favor of the newer open-source [[Iwlwifi]] driver.}}
 == External Discussion ==

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 ** Supported with the [http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wpi wpi] driver in 4.0.
 * [[Ubuntu]]
-** Works out of the box in Ubuntu 8.04.
+** Works out of the box in Ubuntu 8.04 - 9.10, but does '''not''' work with 10.04, see bugs [http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2216] and [http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2213]. These issues are likely to be on all distributions with a kernel more recent than 2.6.31 (Ubuntu 2.6.31-21).
 *[[ArchLinux]]
 ** [http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_Setup Wireless Setup for ArchLinux]

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 ** The net-wireless/ipw3945 package contains everything you need
 *{{Debian}}
 ** Debian Unstable (Sid) only needs the package "firmware-iwlwifi", as the new iwl3945 is integrated into Kernel 2.6.24
 ** The ipw3945 microcode is available in the [http://packages.debian.org/testing/admin/firmware-ipw3945 firmware-ipw3945] package (currently in testing and unstable (same versions)).

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 ** The ipw3945 regulatory daemon is available in the [http://packages.debian.org/testing/net/ipw3945d ipw3945d] package (currently in testing and unstable (same versions)).
 ** The ipw3945 module source is available in the [http://packages.debian.org/testing/net/ipw3945-source ipw3945-source] package (currently in testing and unstable (same versions)).
-** '''DEPRECATED:''' Unofficial packages are available from [http://ace-host.stuart.id.au/russell/files/debian/sarge/ipw3945/ Russell Stuart], [http://kanotix.com/files/debian/pool/contrib/i/ Stefan Lippers-Hollmann], and [http://www.joachim-reichel.de/debian/sid/ Joachim Reichel].
+** '''DEPRECATED:''' Unofficial packages are available from [http://ace-host.stuart.id.au/russell/files/debian/sarge/ipw3945/ Russell Stuart], [http://kanotix.com/files/debian/pool/contrib/i/ Stefan Lippers-Hollmann]
 * [[OpenBSD]]
 ** Supported with the [http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wpi wpi] driver in 4.0.

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 ** '''NOTE:''' Add to /etc/modprobe.conf: alias eth1 ipw3945
 *{{Mandriva}}
-** Mandriva's kernel comes with the ipw3945 module (since at least 2006.0 Update One)
+** In Mandriva releases 2007.0-2007.1, the kernel came with the ipw3945 module, while a possibly updated driver was provided as DKMS source and binary packages; since release 2008.0 this module is provided only as separate DKMS (per-kernel) binary and source packages, and module [[Iwlwifi]] replaced it in kernel
-** dkms package (dkms-ipw3945) can be found in contrib (currenlty cooker only, thus will probably be in 2007.0)
+** dkms package (dkms-ipw3945) can be found in contrib since release 2007.0
-** Additional Packages: ipw3945d and ipw3945-ucode, both either available in the commercial distribution (or club) or from http://plf.zarb.org/
+** Additional Packages: ipw3945d and ipw3945-ucode are available in the (public) 'non-free' media since Mandriva 2007.1, previously they were available either for paying users, or in (non-Mandriva) PLF repositories
 *{{Gentoo}}
 ** The net-wireless/ipw3945 package contains everything you need

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 == See also ==
-* [[Iwlwifi]] provides a newer, Open driver
+* [[Iwl3945]]
 [[Category: Drivers]]

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-The most recent revision of the Intel [[Centrino]] platform utilizes a new generation of wireless networking device connected to the system via '''PCI-E''', and not PCI (like the [[ipw2200]]-line used to do). Therefore, a new driver must be used. A Sourceforge project supporting the new cards is available at [http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/ http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/]. As of February 26, 2008, the project's code ([http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/detail_desc.aspx?ProductID=2259&DwnldID=10315&agr=Y Stable Release 1.2.0]) depends on a '''binary-only, proprietary''' user-space-daemon communicating with the driver via sysfs. It is '''not possible''' to operate this device with Free Software exclusively at the moment. The license-terms the daemon is released under prohibit reverse-engineering of the communication-protocol; this will hopefully not hold developers outside the US, where clauses like this one are not enforceable, from re-implementing a free variant of some sort.
+The most recent revision of the Intel [[Centrino]] platform utilizes a new generation of wireless networking device connected to the system via '''PCI-E''', and not PCI (like the [[ipw2200]]-line used to do). Therefore, a new driver must be used.  As of February 26, 2008, the project's code ([http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/detail_desc.aspx?ProductID=2259&DwnldID=10315&agr=Y Stable Release 1.2.0]) depends on a '''binary-only, proprietary''' user-space-daemon communicating with the driver via sysfs. It is '''not possible''' to operate this device with Free Software exclusively at the moment. The license-terms the daemon is released under prohibit reverse-engineering of the communication-protocol; this will hopefully not hold developers outside the US, where clauses like this one are not enforceable, from re-implementing a free variant of some sort.
 == External Discussion ==
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 == History ==
-The [[ipw2200]]-drivers in kernel 2.6.15 (and possibly later) do '''not''' work with this adapter. There is the stable binary driver [http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/ ipw3945] that attracted its fair share of critics from the open source community. Now however there is a "development" version of [http://intellinuxwireless.org/ iwlwifi]. As of 2.6.23, this is natively supported in the kernel. Make sure that MAC80211 and IWL3945 kernel config options are either compiled as modules or built into the kernel.
+The [[ipw2200]]-drivers in kernel 2.6.15 (and possibly later) do '''not''' work with this adapter. The [[Ipw|Intel binary driver]] is available, but has attracted its fair share of critics from the open source community.
 == Comments ==
 A Spanish summary, but easy to understand about how to install:
 [http://www.esdebian.org/forum/viewtopic.php?forum=18&showtopic=69543 esDebian Forum], maxim_o message (longer)