Problems with F7 and ipw3945

[aspire101]

Hi all,
I've managed to get wireless networking working, although it's running quite slowly.
I installed the ipw3945/d rpms from atrpms, using the 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 kernel and NetworkManager to connect.

when connected over the wire, my downloads from kernel.org are about 800Kb/s, however when downloading the same file over my wireless router, the speed rarely goes above 150Kb/s (usually less than 100kb).

In my messages log, there are logs of these entries:
kernel: iwl3945: REPLY_ADD_STA failed, which I found is in the ipw3945 module sources (though I can't debug it, I don't know C).

Has anybody had much success with this driver under Fedora? I was previously using Suse and Ubuntu, which were both fine, so the hardware is supported - I'm assuming it's a config issue.

Thanks for reading.

[deepsa]

Hi,
iwl3945 is not a ipw3945 module.
In fedora7 we have a new free software based driver for intel wireless cards that is built right inside the kernel. You don't need to have ipw3945 anymore (as told by fedora guys). If you have a intel wireless iwl3945 gets loaded by default.
iwl3945 never worked for me. So I usually blacklist it.
open /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
and write these 3 lines in it.
blacklist mac80211
blacklist cfg80211
blacklist iwl3945

And reboot. This will ensure that iwl3945 never gets loaded and only ipw3945 (kernel module) get's loaded.
Maybe this thing helps.

Thanks.