[ltp] T60p - No Device Found for ipw3945 WiFi card on FC5 most recent kernel

[Florian Manschwetus]

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The problem is udev it loads the module but bypasses the modprobe deamon 
  workaraound
Florian
(same at last check with gentoo but there was recent changes i didn't 
tested sofar)

Bertrand Servin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I had some issues with loading the driver at boot time on a Debian
> Etch. The symptoms were similar to yours: the module appeared in lsmod
> but I couldn't associate with an access point. I also had a modprobe file
> like yours (indeed it is the one provided in the installation 
> instructions of
> the driver).  Although for debian these files are located in
> /etc/modprobe.d/ directory. Maybe it is not the same for FC5.
> 
> I realized that if I did a "modprobe -r ipw9345" followed by a
> "modprobe ipw3945", the module was correctly loaded, the daemon
> started and I could connect to an access point. have you tried to do
> that ?
> 
> If this works, it is probably the same problem as I had. I found the
> workaround, for Debian, on this web page:
> http://www.atworkonline.it/~bibe/etch/index.html
> 
> What it does is add an entry in /etc/rc.d so that the driver is
> correctly loaded at boot time. These are instruction for Debian, and I
> don't know if they will work on Fedora, but a similar method should be
> possible.
> 
> You can see what I did to install this driver on this web page I
> started writing:
> http://bservin.free.fr/wikini/wakka.php?wiki=DebianThinkpadT60en
> 
> Hope this helps,


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