Re: Intel Wireless 3945ABG Adapter

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Intel Wireless 3945ABG Adapter
\ Sergey Kobzar (24 Dec 2007)
. \ Neil Bothwick (24 Dec 2007)
. . \ Sergey Kobzar (25 Dec 2007)
. \ Daniel Barkalow (25 Dec 2007)
. . \ AJ Spagnoletti (26 Dec 2007)

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Subject:	Re: Intel Wireless 3945ABG Adapter
Group:	Gentoo-user
From:	AJ Spagnoletti
Date:	26 Dec 2007

On Dec 25, 2007 6:03 PM, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Sergey Kobzar wrote:
>
> > I have laptop with wireless adapter:
sn't do anything. With 1.1.x, there was some issue with the driver
> getting confused if it lost the access point's signal briefly and then got
> it back. One thing to watch out of is that it's a mac80211-based driver;
> you'll get an extra "master" interface that tends to confuse udev.
> > >
> > # lspci | grep -i wireless
> > 02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)
> >
> > It has 2 drivers:
> >
> > http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/ (marked as deprecated)
> > http://intellinuxwireless.org/ (masked in portage tree)
> >
> > At the moment I use IPW3945. Is it wort to switch to iwlwifi? How does
> > it work with 2.6.23 kernel? Is it stable?
>

I have used both the IPW3945 and the iwlwifi drivers for this card and
I have found sucess with both. From my experiences however the ipw3945
driver provided better results with the led light on the case
(although this was a known issue with iwlwifi) and also in scanning
for access points prior to connecting to one. Aside from that, both
have worked great for me and I am currently using the iwlwifi driver.

AJ
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