Intel ipw3945 wireless stoped working after update to kernel 2.6.20-1.2962

[potat0]

Story:
Initial setup of the ipw3945 on Fc6, wasn't straight forward,
but after some googling around, I've figure out that I would
need to switch my i386 kernel to an i686 so it could match the
packages available. Initial used atrpms, didn't worked, then
used freshrpms.... it would eventually started working.

Problem:
After my last update to kernel 2.6.20-1.2962 my eth1 just
disapeard.... no messages on the /var/messages the /sbin/ipw3945d
when forced to started just complains:
# /sbin/ipw3945d
ipw3945d - regulatory daemon
Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
version: 1.7.22
2007-07-01 17:09:58: ERROR: Could not find Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
Network Connection

Ups...

Solution:
# cd /var/lib/dkms/ipw3945/1.2.1-1/build
# make
# cp ipw3945.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2962.fc6/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/
# depmod -a
# service ipw3945d restart

And got it back to life.


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[Mikkel]

Nelson Escravana (nne) wrote:
>  Story:
>  Initial setup of the ipw3945 on Fc6, wasn't straight forward,
>  but after some googling around, I've figure out that I would
>  need to switch my i386 kernel to an i686 so it could match the
>  packages available. Initial used atrpms, didn't worked, then
>  used freshrpms.... it would eventually started working.
>  
>  Problem:
>  After my last update to kernel 2.6.20-1.2962 my eth1 just
>  disapeard.... no messages on the /var/messages the /sbin/ipw3945d
>  when forced to started just complains:
>  # /sbin/ipw3945d
>  ipw3945d - regulatory daemon
>  Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
>  version: 1.7.22
>  2007-07-01 17:09:58: ERROR: Could not find Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
>  Network Connection
>  
>  Ups...
>  
>  Solution:
>  # cd /var/lib/dkms/ipw3945/1.2.1-1/build
>  # make
>  # cp ipw3945.ko
>  /lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2962.fc6/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/
>  # depmod -a
>  # service ipw3945d restart
>  
>  And got it back to life.
>  
>   
You will have to do this on every kernel update, unless you get the
proper module for your kernel installed from ether atrpms or
freshrpms. You need to match both the arch (i686) and kernel
version. The same module does not work for the standard kernel, and
the ZEN kernel, for example.

You will also want to install the proper yum plugin so that the
kernel in not updated before the module is available. (fedorakmod is
one, and I forget the name of the other...) I run the same module on
my laptop, and it gets installed with the updated kernel without
extra effort on my part.

Mikkel
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[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 02:51:21PM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>  You will have to do this on every kernel update, unless you get the
>  proper module for your kernel installed from ether atrpms or
>  freshrpms. You need to match both the arch (i686) and kernel
>  version. The same module does not work for the standard kernel, and
>  the ZEN kernel, for example.
>  
>  You will also want to install the proper yum plugin so that the
>  kernel in not updated before the module is available. (fedorakmod is
>  one, and I forget the name of the other...) I run the same module on
>  my laptop, and it gets installed with the updated kernel without
>  extra effort on my part. 
It's yum-plugin-kmdl. If you install once a kmdl it will try to always
install corresponding kmdls for future kernels as well.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

[Ian Malone]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>  Nelson Escravana (nne) wrote:
> > Story:
> > Initial setup of the ipw3945 on Fc6, wasn't straight forward,
> > but after some googling around, I've figure out that I would
> > need to switch my i386 kernel to an i686 so it could match the
> > packages available. Initial used atrpms, didn't worked, then
> > used freshrpms.... it would eventually started working.
> >
> > Problem:
> > After my last update to kernel 2.6.20-1.2962 my eth1 just
> > disapeard.... no messages on the /var/messages the /sbin/ipw3945d
> > when forced to started just complains:
> > # /sbin/ipw3945d
> > ipw3945d - regulatory daemon
> > Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
> > version: 1.7.22
> > 2007-07-01 17:09:58: ERROR: Could not find Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
> > Network Connection
> >
> > Ups...
> >
> > Solution:
> > # cd /var/lib/dkms/ipw3945/1.2.1-1/build
> > # make
> > # cp ipw3945.ko
> > /lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2962.fc6/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/
> > # depmod -a
> > # service ipw3945d restart
> >
> > And got it back to life.
> >
> >
>  You will have to do this on every kernel update, unless you get the
>  proper module for your kernel installed from ether atrpms or
>  freshrpms. You need to match both the arch (i686) and kernel
>  version. The same module does not work for the standard kernel, and
>  the ZEN kernel, for example.
>  
>  You will also want to install the proper yum plugin so that the
>  kernel in not updated before the module is available. (fedorakmod is
>  one, and I forget the name of the other...) I run the same module on
>  my laptop, and it gets installed with the updated kernel without
>  extra effort on my part.
>   
If you use dkms-ipw3945 from Freshrpms the module gets
rebuilt whenever you boot into a new kernel, meaning
you don't have to wait for a new package to be built
and the package doesn't need updated unless there's
actually a new release of the module.
http://moonshine.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=397

Most (all?) of the drivers available from Freshrpms work
this way (i.e. they use dkms).

-- 
imalone