Does Intel wifi card 3945 work well with kernel 2.6.27?
I had a horrible time with wireless when I upgraded to Mandriva 2008.1. I never found an answer online, but I met a Linux developer who told me that it was a problem with Intel's driver used with the kernel (2.6.24) and there was no clean way to install another driver.* So I went back to Mandriva 2008.0 - better the bugs I know, and can deal with, than wifi that doesn't work much of the time.
Question: Is this card, Intel's ABG3945, now working with the latest kernels? Can anyone tell me the the minimum version number I should be using? I want to upgrade to Mandriva 2009.0 (kernel 2.6.27) but might try other distros as well. Thanks! * Information that still seems to not be online, curiously - oh for a good wiki for Linux end-users. Btw I looked at OpenSolaris, suggested by a friend from Sun. I gather the Linux kernel versions don't apply, but since the last stable release is from May, around the same time as the problematic Linux distros, I'll avoid it for now. |
The 3945 has been a bit of a moving target for the devs. Especially those distros that do "releases" that effectively freeze kernel levels. Don't know about Mandy, but it's certainly true of Ubuntu.
I would expect later releases to work fine - hopefully using the iwlwifi driver that has been merged into the mainline. The distro still needs to ship the (Intel supplied) microcode though. Try a liveCD if it's offered and see. Update: just for interest I pulled the latest Ubuntu beta for Intrepid. Running as a liveCD it found the 3945 fine - doing this update using it. As an aside, Fedora 9 has no issues either. |
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