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Loving the new Intel PRO wireless drivers

Submitted by miggols99 on 13 August, 2008 - 10:02

The new kernel 2.6.26 includes new Intel wireless drivers. They are great! The first thing I noticed was the wireless light was lit. And flashing when it was doing something Smile Today I noticed something even better. I put my laptop into suspend and when I resumed it, I expected I had to open wicd and disconnect...and connect again. But I tried to open something in Firefox, and it worked Smile Big Before I used to avoid using suspend because of the hassle of disconnecting and reconnecting. But now I think I will be using it much more Wink

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A question

Submitted by Guest on 14 August, 2008 - 08:10.

Hello, I want to ask a silly question. Does it means the Intel Wireless drivers are coded in the kernel and I can just remove the package "iwlwifi-3945-ucode"? Just like "linux-uvc" is already in the new kernel?

No - the iwlwifi driver is in

Submitted by Guest on 18 August, 2008 - 07:52.

No - the iwlwifi driver is in the kernel (and has been since ?.24?), but the ucode package is still needed. It contains some proprietary intel code that (I think) runs on the wireless card itself and it won't work without it.