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#10744: Use ipw3945 as default driver for Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
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Written by DoDoENT the 5 Jul 08 at 10:53.
Category: Hardware support.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
Hello everyone!
I am using hardy heron 8.04 with user-compiled ipw3945 driver for my wireless network card, because default iwl3945 doesn't work with my university's network. But so far I've seen, ipw3945 has more features than iwl3945:
1.) better scan sensitivity
2.) works with wireless networks that require 802.1X authentication
3.) excellent power saving features (using ipw3945 over iwl3945 increases my laptop battery life by cca 45 minutes)
4.) ipw3945 is open source driver and not proprietary (although jockey-gtk detects it as proprietary) - sources that I have include GPLv2/BSD licence
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FuturePilot wrote on the 5 Jul 08 at 19:26
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The only problem is the ipw is no longer developed.
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DoDoENT wrote on the 5 Jul 08 at 20:38
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True. But it works far better than iwl. And if we get people interested, someone might bring the project back to life. Personally, I think ipw has been made so perfect that it no longer requires much of development.
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tomaszx wrote on the 6 Jul 08 at 07:42
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yeah, when ubuntu start use iwl module then i feel that my wifi card not work like before... something strange...
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noodlesgc wrote on the 18 Jul 08 at 14:01
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ipw has been abandoned, so there are probably many security issues. ipw is not proprietary, but in order for it to run, it requires a proprietary daemon.
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gteijido wrote on the 25 Jul 08 at 16:55
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Hi, my notebook has the same wireless card and y found that a lot of people is having troubles to make it work (Dell, HP, Acer, Toshiba includes this card in many of their laptop models). I think that we can either bring the ipw3945 prject back and update it with the new features in the iwl3945 or keep working on iwl3945 problems mean while users shold be allowed to use ipw394.
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DoDoENT wrote on the 27 Jul 08 at 07:53
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I agree.
I like open source software, but I really hate buggy software. And iwl has a lot of bugs, so it would be great to allow ubuntu users to use ipw as long as iwl becomes usable.
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DoDoENT wrote on the 31 Jul 08 at 18:38
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@noodlesgc
I've just got an idea! Why bothering to make an open source driver that doesn't require a proprietary daemon and doesn't work quite well?
I think it would be much easier to create an open source daemon for ipw3945!
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