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--- iwl3945 [2008/07/08 14:41] – Emphasize "2.6.25 required", since many people are trying to do this on 2.6.24 and even older kernels. netrolller3d
+++ iwl3945 [2008/11/05 15:55] – jeroenimo
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 //Note: This page is about the iwl3945 driver. For the older ipw3945/ipwraw driver, see [[ipw3945]].//
-====== Intel PRO/Wireless 3945AGN, mac80211 driver ======
-Iwl3945 is the new driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945AGN wireless chipset. It includes new features like:
+====== Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG, mac80211 driver ======
+Iwl3945 is the new driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG wireless chipset. It includes new features like:
   * Managed and monitor mode support in one driver,
   * Enhanced injection support,
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 The driver is based on the [[mac80211]] stack, so the usual requirements apply (aircrack-ng 1.0-rc1, a recent version of libnl, a fairly new kernel, etc.)
 ===== Installing the driver =====
-Starting with 2.6.24, the driver is included in the kernel. **Injection requires 2.6.25 or later.** The compat-wireless-2.6 package must be installed and patched to get injection support.
+Starting with 2.6.24, the driver is included in the kernel. **Injection requires 2.6.25 or later.** The compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-old package must be installed and patched to get injection support.
+*UPDATE* Apparently the new version of compat-wireless should *not* be patched and should work out of the box.
+more can be found here: http://tinyshell.be/aircrackng/forum/index.php?topic=2898.0
-==== Installing and patching compat-wireless-2.6 ====
+==== Installing and patching compat-wireless ====
   - Install your kernel headers and sources, as well as all packages required for building kernel modules.
-  - Download compat-wireless-2.6 from [[http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download#Wheretodownload|here]].
+  - Download compat-wireless from [[http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download#Wheretodownload|here]]. For 2.6.26 and older, use compat-wireless-old, for newer versions (currently 2.6.27-rcX), use compat-wireless-2.6.
   - Untar the archive to your home directory. This will create a dated directory ~/compat-wireless-DATE, where DATE is the build date of the package.
   - Download [[http://tinyshell.be/aircrackng/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=281.0;id=366|the fragmentation patch]], and apply it to the compat-wireless package. This is needed to make attacks -5 and -7 work.