Comments on: Wireless

By: Andrew Tachie-Menson

Andrew Tachie-Menson — Tue, 29 May 2007 14:16:32 +0000

Hi,
I am back again to help my friends who still can’t get the ipw3945 driver working.
After following all the instructions above, type this command as root without the quotation marks
“dhcpcd eth1″ My advice for your installation is:
First try getting the your wireless working without any form of security first.
I recompiled my kernel. To install xzvf ieee80211-?.?.?.tgz make sure you compile it as a “module” in your kernel so that you will have no problem with the installation. unless ieee80211-?.?.?.tgz is installed properly, you cannot proceed with the rest of the installation especially compiling the ipw3945-1.1.0.tgz to get ipw3945.ko
Whatever interface you use for your wireless whether wlan0 (ie using ndiswrapper) or the above instructions, don’t ever forget to do “dhcpcd wlan0″ or “dhcpcd eth1″ as root without the quotation marks.
I hope this helps somebody. Thanks. Andrew.
installation.

By: Andrew Tachie-Menson

Andrew Tachie-Menson — Sun, 27 May 2007 09:07:52 +0000

Thanks, for the instructions. It worked perfectly for my Dell inspiron 6400 using slackware 11.0. However I notice that an error message comes on my line 14 in my rc.ipw9345 which mentions the fact that “unload” is missing or not available.

Also, I think that adding the “how to” to configure wpa_supplicant for the rc.ipw3945 daemon for the Intel PRO wireless 3945 driver would have been a great idea so that we can use the wpa-psk security straight away. I am now surfing wirelessly but security lessly. Thank you. You can send my how you configured wpa_supplicant by mail if you don’t feel like adding it here due to space or whatever and I will be very greatful to you.

By: Lewis

Lewis — Mon, 07 May 2007 22:14:41 +0000

Marco,
I don’t have any problems with bluetooth in either Windows or Linux. I would try upgrading the driver/software in windows to see if that helps. Search the dell support website for them. Other than that you could have a bad chip.

By: Raiz3n

Raiz3n — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:28:47 +0000

Hi all,

I’ve got some trouble with the Intel Pro-Wireless-3945AGB card. I’ve got Slackware 11.

I follow the instructions to install firmware and configure it BUT…
It doesn’t work !!

you said this:

The above no longer worked in Slackware 11 so the trick was to run the ./load script on bootup.

1. Make sure the ipw3945.ko module was copied to /lib/modules/$(uname -r)
2. Copy the ./load script (from the ipw3945-1.1.0 folder) to /etc/rc.d
3. Rename it to
rc.ipw3945
4. Call this script from /etc/rc.d/rc.local so it will run at bootup. Add the following to rc.local:
echo “Starting up Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG”
/etc/rc.d/./rc.ipw3945
Since I setup my wireless options in /etc/rc.d/rc.wireless.conf, just running the above script was enough to get my wireless up and running automatically at bootup.

HOW CAN I DO THIS PLEASE ?
Could you explain me all this installation for Slackware 11… Thanks ^^

By: Marco Sotelo

Marco Sotelo — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:57:59 +0000

Excuse me, i have the same machine (Dell XPS 1210), but i have problems with the bluetooth, when i start windows it craches, but if i remove the bluetooth card windows starts veru good. I use linux (debian and ubuntu) but i don’t cofigure the card, my question is if you have some problems with the Bluetooth Card???

Thanks

By: Lewis

Lewis — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:51:25 +0000

Assuming your wireless is set to eth1, do the following to make sure your access point is listed: # iwlist eth1 scan

Try the following command to receive an IP from DHCP:

# dhcpcd -d -t 5 eth1 That should give you an IP. Also, double check your wireless DHCP settings on your router.

By: Colin

Colin — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 00:05:26 +0000

Hi its me again …My wireless says its connected …but my dhcp is not giving me an ip adress..when i use eth0 it works fine ..but my wireless says its connected yet i cant go online…

By: Lewis

Lewis — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 21:33:21 +0000

German,
Try running the ./load script and forget about modprobing the module for now. After running the script, do you see any information for eth1 when you run:
# iwconfig
I had a problem with loading the module manually through modprobe. It didn’t start the ipw3945 daemon and my wireless LED indicator did not light up. Most likely you just need to run that script to see if it resolves the problem.

By: german

german — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 13:39:41 +0000

PD: my kernel version is: 2.6.16-2-686.. dont should be any problems for that #uname -r

2.6.16-2-686

#lsmod

ipw3945               169376       0
ieee80211              44200       1   ipw3945
firmware_class          9472       1   ipw3945

..and someone more #iwconfig

lo        no wireless extensions.    //loopback address

eth0      no wireless extensions.    //eternet utp

eth1      no wireless extensions.    //1394 firewire

sit0      no wireless extensions.

tanks again

By: german

german — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 13:30:14 +0000

hello, im from argentina. this page is very good, thanks for your contribution..
Im tryed to install the wireless driver but dont works.. im followed the steps like you said but dont walk, dont have any errors in the compilations (in order certainly) and the module its load correctly.. iwconfig dont show nothing.. only “no wireless extension” forr all disp. in the list.. can do you helpme with a date or track to resolve this? thanks for you cooperation, and sorry for my bad english