https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=330995#c54
--- Comment #54 from Ben Kevan
(In reply to comment #52 from Ben Kevan)
I am not sure what the status of this is upstream but I have been following the iwl driver and it's doing pretty well right now. I hope that in openSUSE 11.0 the iwl driver will be default as the ipw is buggy and doesn't have much if any movement.
JG, any thoughts on that / this?
Boggle.
I haven't tried upstream lately, but every time I have tried iwl it has been a horrible failure. It has a lifespan of a few minutes to a few hours (random) and when it fails, a reboot is the only thing that fixes it.
In contrast, I switched to using the ipw driver, and while it totally fails under Network Manager, it works perfectly under traditional ifup network controls.
So I would really hope that SUSE 11.0 goes the other way, fixes Network Manager, and uses the ipw3945 driver.
Yes it used to be like that for me but the recent 1.2.22 from (http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/?p=iwlwifi) is pretty darn good. As for the ipw fix you can fix with a patched version of the ipw3945 driver.. I can help you out with that if you wanted (give you some steps). I am just disappointed they haven't applied the patch and released a fixed ipw3945 driver. I would also expect it to later be included into a GM version that includes the "Blocker" repair fix. Oh well.. We shall see. Ben -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.