Re: on a dell D820

[Graham Williams <Graham.Williams@togaware.com>]

Received Wed 03 May 2006  6:52am +1000 from Florian Kulzer:
> On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 15:08:53 -0500, anoop aryal wrote:
> > On Tuesday 02 May 2006 13:47, Stefan Srdic wrote:
[...]
> > > >2) i read somewhere that the wireless card on this puppy works with the
> > > >ipw3200 module. is there any chance that that would show up under module
> > > >assistant?
> 
> The driver is called ipw3945. You won't find it with module assistant
> because it has not been debianised yet (as far as I can tell). You have
> to download the source from http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/ and follow
> the instructions to build the driver. (You don't need to worry about the
> ieee80211 subsystem, though; that is now included in the kernel.)
[...]

If it is the Intell Wireless/Pro 3945, then I've just gone through this
for building the ipw3945 module on a Dell 6400. I document it at:

  http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/Wireless.shtml

Straightforward process.

(The ieee80211 subsystem in Debian is too old I think - I had to
"worry" about it!)

Regards,
Graham