Intel Pro Wireless 3945

[John Dey]

Axel,


On May 15, 2007, at 4:01 AM, Axel Thimm wrote:

> On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:42:48PM -0400, John Dey wrote:
>> Axel,
>>
>> I installed using the yum install command given below.  The packages
>> installed without any errors.  I still don't have a wireless
>> connection.
>>
>>  iwlist scan shows the device eth1 and the mac of the wap on the
>> network.  Another host using fedora core 5 with a wireless adaptor
>> currently successfully connected to the WAP.  I ran lsmod | grep 3945
>> and get:
>>
>> ipw3945			195755		1
>> ieee80211		54132		ipw3945
>>
>> From the above can you or anyone, for that matter, tell me what I'm
>> missing.  If additional info needed, let me know and I will run.
>> Thanks.
>
> Have you started the regulatory daemon (ipw3945d)?

Yes ps -C ipw3945d shows with a time of zero.  I did yum install 
ipw3945 and ipw3945-kmdl-`uname -r` as reported yesterday.  My system 
boot ipw3945d at initialization.  I am somewhat confused about 
ipw3945-firmware ( I can't find a yum version) or is it ipw3945-ucode.  
I may not have the firmware installed?
>
> If you want to automate this check out
> http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/INSTALL (AUTOMATIC DAEMON LOADING VIA
> MODPROBE), but beware, there are racing issues, so the suggested
> modprobe tricks only work on some systems (which is why it isn't done
> by the packages automatically).
>
>> John
>> On May 14, 2007, at 5:51 PM, Axel Thimm wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 04:29:47PM -0400, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
>>>> Some weeks ago, my employer gave me a Dell Latitude D820 Laptop with
>>>> an Intel Pro Wireless 3945 adapter. I installed FC6 and tried to 
>>>> make
>>>> the wireless work, but eventually got the impression that one has to
>>>> be a Fedora developer to be able to do that.
>>>
>>> Not really, just enable ATrpms and use
>>>
>>> yum install ipw3945 ipw3945-kmdl-`uname -r`
>>>
>>> and that's already all.
>>>
>>>> Then I heard that under F7, it would be "much easier". So I upgraded
>>>> to Fedora 7 Test 4. There are some glitches, especially that the 
>>>> mouse
>>>> seems to click on things by itself, but I am not aware how making 
>>>> the
>>>> wireless work has become easier. So what exactly got easier?
>>>
>>> The (old) ipw3945 driver still works and is available at ATrpms (for
>>> F7) in case the in-kernel one doesn't.
>>
>
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