Hi,
Any help will be appreciated.
I have been struggling with trying to my wireless working on the DELL
M90 laptop. Please help. :)
Error message:
[root@panther /]# ifup eth1
ipw3945 device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying
initialization.
OS:
[root@panther /]# more /etc/redhat-release
Fedora release 7 (Moonshine)
Kernel:
[root@panther /]# uname -a
Linux panther 2.6.23.12-52.fc7 #1 SMP Tue Dec 18 20:27:10 EST 2007
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Modules loaded:
[root@panther ~]# lsmod |grep ipw
ipw3945 195232 0
ieee80211 51444 1 ipw3945
Packages installed:
[root@panther ~]# rpm -qa |grep ipw
ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2-4.at
ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.23.12-52_1.cubbi_tuxonice.fc7-1.2.0-18.4.fc7
ipw2200-firmware-3.0-9.at
ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.23.12-52.fc7-1.2.0-18.4.fc7
ipw2100-firmware-1.3-8
ipw3945-1.2.0-18.4.fc7
ipw3945d-1.7.22-4.at
[root@panther ~]# rpm -qa |grep ieee
libieee1284-0.2.11-1.fc7
ieee80211-kmdl-2.6.23.12-52_1.cubbi_tuxonice.fc7-1.2.18-20.fc7
libieee1284-0.2.11-1.fc7
ieee80211-kmdl-2.6.23.12-52.fc7-1.2.18-20.fc7
Daemon is running:
[root@panther ~]# ps -ef |grep ipw3945d
root 4958 4641 0 05:47 pts/3 00:00:00 grep ipw3945d
Old stuff blacklisted:
more /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
# iwl3945
blacklist iwl3945
blacklist mac80211
Things ready for reboot in modprobe.conf, right?
[root@panther /]# more /etc/modprobe.conf
alias eth0 tg3
alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-hda-intel index=0
alias eth1 ipw3945
Error message:
[root@panther /]# ifup eth1
ipw3945 device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying
initialization.
[root@panther /]#
PS: What is this?
[root@panther /]# ifconfig
virbr0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet addr:192.168.122.1 Bcast:192.168.122.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::200:ff:fe00:0/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:56 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:11632 (11.3 KiB)
Thanks,
Ernesto