Re: [ANNOUNCE] d80211 based driver for Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG

From: Hesse, Christian
Date: Sat Feb 10 2007 - 09:26:27 EST


On Saturday 10 February 2007 14:23, Hesse, Christian wrote:
> On Friday 09 February 2007 22:12, James Ketrenos wrote:
> > We are pleased to announce the availability of a new driver for the
> > Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection adapter.
>
> Wow, great news on this rainy saturday! ;-)
>
> The driver works perfectly, I'm writing this mail via wireless link.
> However there are two things to note:
>
> The driver generates two network devices. The second one is for promicious
> mode? Is there any chance to disable the interface? ifrename renamed the
> wrong one to wlan0 and I had to tell my system to use eth1 for the wireless
> connection.
>
> Second problem is that I can't unload the module. I get the message "FATAL:
> Module iwlwifi is in use." even if both interfaces are down.

Oh, I forgot one note: "make patch_kernel" is terribly broken. Any chance to
get this fixed soon?
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Regards,
Chris

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