Hi. I'm not a Gentoo Ebuild Developer but I'd like to submit an ebuild set that I have created for those who own/use a Dell Inspiron 9400, in particular and to all people who have an Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG in general. Since Intel provided several components with different licenses each, I've tried my best to include these licenses in the ebuild set. However I might have forgotten/missed something so you might have to check them first. For the technical part of it I've successfully installed emerged the new packages on my system. They seem to work properly. I've build them under the ~x86 architecture and written an install HOWTO on Gentoo Forums (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3140770.html#3140770). The tarball I'm referring to in the URL includes three ebuilds plus two licenses from Intel as per their own documentation. I hope you'll find something valuable there ;-). Glad to contribute, Vince C.
Oops... forgot the main project page on SourceForge: http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/
Please attach ebuilds and license here as plain text.
Created attachment 80782 [details] ipw3945 microcode
Created attachment 80783 [details] ipw3945 regulatory daemon
Created attachment 80784 [details] ipw3945 kernel module
Created attachment 80785 [details] Intel Binary License for ipw3945 binary daemon
Created attachment 80786 [details] Intel license for ipw3945 microcode
Perhaps this preup() for /etc/conf.d/net would be handy here; I devised this to automatically load the daemon when the interface is started: preup() { # Test for link on the interface prior to bringing it up. This # only works on some network adapters and requires the mii-diag # package to be installed. #if mii-tool ${IFACE} 2> /dev/null | grep -q 'no link'; then # ewarn "No link on ${IFACE}, aborting configuration" # return 1 #fi # Test for link on the interface prior to bringing it up. This # only works on some network adapters and requires the ethtool # package to be installed. #if ethtool ${IFACE} | grep -q 'Link detected: no'; then # ewarn "No link on ${IFACE}, aborting configuration" # return 1 # fi if [ $IFACE == 'eth1' ]; then einfo "Checking ipw3945 daemon" if ! ipw3945d --isrunning; then ebegin "Starting ipw3945 daemon" ipw3945d --quiet eend $? else einfo "Already running." fi fi # Remember to return 0 on success return 0 }
(In reply to comment #8) > Perhaps this preup() for /etc/conf.d/net would be handy here; I devised this to > automatically load the daemon when the interface is started: > > preup() { > ... > } > The advised way from Intel readme (adapted to Gentoo) is to append the following lines to file /etc/modules.d/ipw3945: install ipw3945 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ipw3945; sleep 0.5 ; /sbin/ipw3945d --quiet remove ipw3945 /sbin/ipw3945d --kill; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove ipw3945 It doesn't require prior knowledge of the interface name.
They released version 1.0.0 a few days ago....
It looks like their version 1.0 is in fact version 0.0.69 of the binaries. See http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3249899.html#3249899 . I didn't check it myself however.
Sounds like something for the mobile herd... :)
(In reply to comment #12) > Sounds like something for the mobile herd... :) Sounds like something I committed last week ;) Thanks, though. Please CC: mobile herd on all wireless related bug reports.
