OK so here is what I have done thus far:

[1] add iwl3945 to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
[2] installed ipw3945d ipw3945-ucode
[3] ieee82011 is enabled just fine
[4] kernel-devel gcc
[5] make && make install;copied ipw3945.ko;depmod -ae
[6] also added an init script
[7] chkconfig --add ipw3945 && chkconfig --level 345 ipw3945 on

rebooted

ipw3945 loads, lsmod shows it, all looks well

I can for the life of me get wifi to start though, got it just fine working in fc6 with similar steps as above --- I will buy someone a six pack of Rolling Rock ponies if they have any ideas that work ;-) lol

eh, for a what two week old OS it's working fairly well, better than anticipated

Intel Pro Wireless 3945AGB
IPV6INIT=no
USERCTL=yes
DEVICE=eth1
TYPE=Wireless
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
MODE=Managed
RATE=Auto
ONBOOT=no
ESSID=go_badgers
CHANNEL=1
PEERDNS=no
#KEY located in /etc/sysconfig/network-script/key-eth1

[root@localhost yum.repos.d]# lspci | grep 3945
0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)
[root@localhost yum.repos.d]# lsmod | grep ipw
ipw3945 203936 0
ieee80211 57332 1 ipw3945
[root@localhost yum.repos.d]# ps -ef|grep ipw
root 1275 11 0 18:39 ? 00:00:00 [ipw3945/0]
root 1276 11 0 18:39 ? 00:00:00 [ipw3945/1]
root 1277 11 0 18:39 ? 00:00:00 [ipw3945/0]
root 1278 11 0 18:39 ? 00:00:00 [ipw3945/1]
root 7325 3567 0 19:07 pts/1 00:00:00 grep ipw
[root@localhost yum.repos.d]#

I don't see any mention of the ipw3945 daemon in your post.
http://fedoramobile.org/Members/opse...5-on-fedora-7/

-- Where do you want the beer shipped?

Thank you .... it was a long day, decided I would install 7 on my laptop - which I use for work, vpn, remote desktop, etc ... so I spent a lot of time backing up files and data to an external drive, then I had a bad DVD, then I couldn't start a desktop manager, KDE wouldn't install, etc

So figures I would overlook the blatently obvious, ipw3945d

thanks for the link too, nice page to reference