Re: Does anyone understand NetworkManager?

["Darren Albers" <dalbers gmail com>]

On 8/14/06, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 13:28 -0400, David Abrahams wrote:
> > Robert Love <rml novell com> writes:
> >
> > > On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 11:15 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > >
> > >> > IBM T60p laptop builtin wireless.  I'm not sure who manufactures that
> > >> > part of the circuit, but it's a Centrino Duo so probably Intel.
> > >>
> > >> Likely an ipw2200, ipw2915, or ipw3945, right?  Do an 'lsmod | grep ipw'
> > >> from a terminal and let us know what you find.
> > >
> > > The T60 has an ipw3945, which is a great chip.  Try using the latest
> > > version of the driver
> >
> > You mean the Windows driver with ndiswrapper around it?  Or is there a
> > Linux driver for ipw3945?
>
> There is a Linux driver:
>
> http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net
>
> It's not in the kernel yet, but various distributions are already
> packaging it.
David,

Ubuntu has the IPW3946 driver packaged and since it is part of the
restricted modules package you should have it.  To verify this do:
dmesg | grep ipw

and look for a message that the driver was loaded successfully.