On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Axel Thimm wrote:

> Currently ipw3945 requires a kernel >= 2.6.10, so it will work on
> neither SL3, nor even SL4. :(
> 
> I believe that if enough people show interest 2.6.9 (and thus SL4) may
> be picked up, but it looks rather hopeless for 2.4 kernels.

For SL3.* (kernels 2.4.*) it might be worth trying ndiswrapper.  
There are fairly positive comments in their supported list at 
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List

As far as I know, there has been no resolution of the issues with 
ndiswrapper when used with 2.6.* kernels built with the default 4k 
stacks (possibly there *can be no resolution*?).  But at least as a 
temporary solution for SL3.* it may be worth trying; and, once 
installed, it can support quite a number of different hardware types, 
which may be handy for some users.

At any rate I've been using ndiswrapper successfully with SL303 and 
305 and a couple of different chipsets (rt2500[1] and ti1130).  I 
can't speak specifically for the intel 3945, but if I had it, I sure 
would give it a try for SL3.

hope that helps a bit.  ndiswrapper source includes recipes to build 
an RPM.

[1]For the rt2500 chipset there's also native software, available from 
the rt2x00 project (their rt2500-1.1.0-b4.tar.gz works for me); but 
you weren't asking about rt2500.

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