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Subject: RE: iwl3945 driver is still unusable!
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:09:37 -0800
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From: "Chatre, Reinette" <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Thomas_B=E4chler?= <thomas@archlinux.org>
Cc: <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	<ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org

On Friday, January 18, 2008 12:42 PM, Thomas B=E4chler  wrote:

>> ipw3945 is deprecated - we focus our effort on iwlwifi at this time.
>=20
> Which doesn't help anyone if it does not work. ipw3945 may be
> deprecated in your eyes, but for me it is the only way to make my
> wireless NIC work
> reliably. From my point of view ipw3945 is stable and iwl3945
> is _alpha_
> software.

Please understand that we need to focus limited resources. ipw3945 is d=
eprecated and we focus on iwlwifi, which supports both 3945 and 4965. U=
nfortunately we have been unable to reproduce your problem.=20

> It is, but if you read my E-Mail, you will notice that the driver
> included in 2.6.24 is unusable, thus my request to use a newer driver
> with a _stable_ kernel. The wireless-dev is based on the latest
> linux-2.6 git, which is not always stable.

=46or this purpose I suggest that you consider the compat-wireless proj=
ect. See http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/compat-w=
ireless-2.6.git and http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2=
=2E6/.

Reinette

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