[arch-general] Dropping ipw3945 from core

Roman Kyrylych roman.kyrylych at gmail.com
Mon Mar 31 12:28:13 EDT 2008


2008/3/31, Sergey Manucharian <sergey.manucharian at rmico.com>:
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:17:45 +0200
>
> Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
>
> > Michael Schaefer schrieb:
>  > > Sergey Manucharian wrote:
>  > >> Recently  I was installing Archlinux on a notebook and the network
>  > >> was working fine with iwl3945 during the installation, but after
>  > >> reboot it couldn't find the module. Since I had no time to
>  > >> investigate this I've just switched to ipw3945.
>  > >
>  > > Exactly the same here.
>  > >
>  > > kr
>  > >     Michael
>  > >
>  >
>  > The module is installed by default with (arch-)kernel 2.6.24 and
>  > newer. Did you guys install the firmware?
>  >
>
>
> Most probably that was the problem, I cannot check it right now. But
>  the think that the installer put "iwl3945" into MODULES line of rc.conf
>  is disappointing people - they think that everything is already done...
>  Anyway, thanks for the hint!

Didn't installer show messages abut firmware/licenses/etc. during boot?
This had to bring users' attention.

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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)


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