[CentOS] CentOS on Dell Inspiron 640m laptop( OT IPW3945 )

Sat Nov 4 01:24:03 UTC 2006
Brian <bri at sonicboom.org>

Steven Vishoot wrote:
> Joshua,
>
> How did you get the ipw3945 wireless card to work? i
> have tried and could not get it to work for me. I
> tried Dags and that gave me an error for dependency
> problem.
>
> thanks
>
>
>
> --- Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu> wrote:
>
>   
>> On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 at 8:36am, Aleksandar Milivojevic
>> wrote
>>
>>     
>>> Quoting Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu>:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> well now, and standby and resume works (except
>>>>         
>> that I can't quite get
>>     
>>>> wireless working after a resume
>>>>         
>>> You mean resume from standby (apm -S) or suspend
>>>       
>> (apm -s)?
>>
>> 'pm-suspend' (remember -- this is FC6).
>>
>>     
>>> Have you tried doing "ifdown eth1; ifup eth1" (or
>>>       
>> whatever your wireless 
>>     
>>> interface is) after resume?  I found it brings up
>>>       
>> wireless back on my laptop 
>>     
>>> after resume from standby.
>>>       
>> Actually, given it's ipw3945, I bring down the
>> interface, stop the 
>> usespace daemon and wpa_supplicant, and remove the
>> module.  I probably 
>> just am not bringing everything up the right way
>> when I resume -- I 
>> haven't really tried too hard yet.
>>
>> -- 
>> Joshua Baker-LePain
>> Department of Biomedical Engineering
>> Duke University
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>
>
> Steven
>  
>
> "On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows or better'. So I installed Linux."
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Brian