I am still interested in the fix for 2.6.17-10-generic on Edgy. And like I said back in November, the modified ipw3945.ko module did not help. It fixed the boot but disabled sound. I vaguely remember that WinXP uses drivers by the same company for the wifi and sound (don't remember it's name).
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