ok downloaded the offical intel driver

ipw3945-1.0.0.tgz

read install guide said i needed ieee80211-1.1.12.tgz
so got that after 3days and a lotta posts finally got that installed after installing kernel-devel-smp packages and gcc?

to try and run the next part of the guide which is

building the ipw3945.ko module!

to which i get
[root@localhost ipw3945-1.0.5]# make
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp/build M=/tmp/nic/ipw3945-1.0.5 modulesmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5-smp-i686'
CC [M] /tmp/nic/ipw3945-1.0.5/ipw3945.o
In file included from /tmp/nic/ipw3945-1.0.5/ipw3945.c:68:
/tmp/nic/ipw3945-1.0.5/ipw3945.h:70:1: warning: "mutex_init" redefined
In file included from include/linux/fs.h:220,
from include/linux/mm.h:16,
from include/linux/skbuff.h:26,
from include/linux/if_ether.h:110,
from /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp/include/net/ieee80211.h:28,
from /tmp/nic/ipw3945-1.0.5/ipw3945.c:64:
include/linux/mutex.h:77:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
/tmp/nic/ipw3945-1.0.5/ipw3945.c: In function ‘ipw_send_associate’:
/tmp/nic/ipw3945-1.0.5/ipw3945.c:4292: error: too few arguments to function ‘ieee80211_tx_frame’
/tmp/nic/ipw3945-1.0.5/ipw3945.c: In function ‘ipw_bg_daemon_cmd’:
/tmp/nic/ipw3945-1.0.5/ipw3945.c:4765: error: too few arguments to function ‘ieee80211_tx_frame’
/tmp/nic/ipw3945-1.0.5/ipw3945.c: In function ‘ipw_auth_work’:
/tmp/nic/ipw3945-1.0.5/ipw3945.c:9381: error: too few arguments to function ‘ieee80211_tx_frame’
/tmp/nic/ipw3945-1.0.5/ipw3945.c:9426: error: too few arguments to function ‘ieee80211_tx_frame’
/tmp/nic/ipw3945-1.0.5/ipw3945.c: In function ‘ipw_handle_probe_request’:
/tmp/nic/ipw3945-1.0.5/ipw3945.c:9496: error: too few arguments to function ‘ieee80211_tx_frame’
make[2]: *** [/tmp/nic/ipw3945-1.0.5/ipw3945.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/nic/ipw3945-1.0.5] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5-smp-i686'
make: *** [modules] Error 2

Anyone shed any light on this one before i bin this little expidition of mine!!!!!!! Dual booting new dell Latitude D520 with XP and Fedora 5 i just want the wifi and audio to work under linux only working on the wifi now when we get this sorted will sort audio

Please need a Guru

Do you have your kernel-devel.*.rpm installed that matches your current running kernel. It is the source code of the kernel. It needs to be installed to build it. To check type the command ' rpm -qa | grep kernel '. You should have one called kernel.* and one that has the same number called kernel-devel.*.

Brian1