Fedora 7 wireless connection woes with Intel Pro/set wireless 3945abg

[Ian Malone]

On 09/07/07, peedee <no-reply-gw at fcp.surfsite.org> wrote:
> allright, a linux user of about a year now, mostly in ubuntu, but some
> eperience in sabayon, and a few other distros
>
> i just installed fedora and i like it so far, but i&#039;m having
> trouble with connecting wirelessly.
>
> fedora apparently recognizes the card because the device is listed as
> intel pro/wireless or something like that.
>
> when i try to "activate" it with the network configuration tool i get
> this:
>
> Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
>     SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
> Error for wireless request "Set Bit Rate" (8B20) :
>     SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported.
>
> Determining IP information for wlan0... failed.
> i have tried plugging in my settings for one of my home wireless
> routers, but it does not help
>

I assume you're using Fedora 7 since you don't mention
installing the driver.  This means you're using the iwl3945
driver.  You might like to try the older ipw3945 driver, to do
that:

To /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist add:
blacklist iwl3945
blacklist mac80211

>From Freshrpms use yum to install:
ipw3945d ipw3945-firmware dkms-ipw3945

And restart.  The device will be ethX rather than wlanY.
If that works you may want to file a bug for iwl3945
(I believe it should be filed against the kernel).
What model is the card you're using?  Is this a laptop?

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imalone