> >> From: Troy Dawson 
 > >> I have recompiled the driver for the 2.6.9-42.0.3EL kernel and put it in
 > >> the testing area.

 > > Jaroslaw Polok wrote:
 > > Please re-download updated version from http://cern.ch/~jpolok/ipw3945/
 > > .. I've fixed a typo in spec file (thanks to Richard, who also tested
 > > the driver: seems that it works with WEP now)

 > From: Troy Dawson 
 > Because of the change I make to have it work in my script, the spec 
 > change you made doesn't affect the rpm's I've already built.  So I'm 
 > going to leave my rpm's up there, but I'll be sure to put that change 
 > into the one's we finally release.
 > I haven't seen anything on the list, and nobody has replied back to me 
 > privately saying whether it works or not.  So I still can't say if they 
 > work or not yet.

better late than never...

kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp-1.1.0-test.1.SL4.i686.rpm
is working very nicely on my new Lenovo X60p connected to APs with WEP

caveats: run ipw3945d and don't soft reboot.  (geesch.)

Thanks guys!!!

steve 
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systems & network manager
high energy physics
university of wisconsin