Bugzilla Bug 135891

Please consider adding the net-wireless/ipw3945 driver (and its dependencies)
to the Install CD so that Gentoo Linux can be easily installed on notebooks
that have this WLAN chip.

I would like to see this on the livecd, however, there *might* be licensing
issues with providing the binary driver with it. I haven't read the license
completely yet though..

(In reply to comment #1)
> I would like to see this on the livecd, however, there *might* be licensing
> issues with providing the binary driver with it. I haven't read the license
> completely yet though..

The driver is not binary - the regualatory daemon (ipw3945d), which runs in
userspace, is. The license allows us to redistribute it.

There were some issues getting this built properly for 2006.1, so it has been
postponed for 2007.0, instead.

*** Bug 150778 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

mobile: Is there any way to make this work with the in-kernel ieee, or is there
any way to make this package "automatic" so manual intervention is *not*
required?

(In reply to comment #5)
> mobile: Is there any way to make this work with the in-kernel ieee, or is there
> any way to make this package "automatic" so manual intervention is *not*
> required?

I'm currently working on it (take a look at net-wireless/ipw3945-1.1.3-r2)
which completely relies on the inkernel ieee80211. Downside is, you need a
kernel >=2.6.18.

That's fine, as 2.6.18 is currently stable.  With 2.6.19 going stable $soon,
we'll likely be using that for the release, anyway.

What's the chances of us being able to get the version of ipw3945 stable that
works with the in-kernel IEEE stuff soon?  I know it hasn't been 30 days, but
I'd love to be able to add this driver to this release, even if it means
injecting it into the snapshot, so long as it ends up stable by the release
date.

(In reply to comment #8)
> What's the chances of us being able to get the version of ipw3945 stable that
> works with the in-kernel IEEE stuff soon?  I know it hasn't been 30 days, but
> I'd love to be able to add this driver to this release, even if it means
> injecting it into the snapshot, so long as it ends up stable by the release
> date.

The current ~arch'ed version works quite well with the inkernel ieee stuff. If
you're proposing marking it stable, I'm all for it.

I am.

Can we get a bug report for it and have the bug report block bug #156814 ?

I guess this belongs rather here than in a new bug report.
http://gentoo.prz.rzeszow.pl/releases/x86/2006.1/installcd/install-x86-minimal-2006.1.iso.CONTENTS
unfortunately includes this driver in the list, while actually it's not there
(pretty annoying).

No, it would belong in a new bug report, as all new bugs do.  That being said,
don't bother, as we're working on 2007.0 and don't plan on going back and
"fixing" 2006.1 for any reason.

This has been added to the 2007.0 specs, so you'll see it there.

This should be fixed on 2007.0 for amd64/x86