Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 nightmare - please help

[geeare1]

I've been trying to get my wireless card to work for several weeks but no matter what I do I always seem to run into a roadblock of some kind. I just used 'yum install ipw3934' to install the files and everything seemed to work fine:

Running Transaction
  Installing: ipw3945-ucode                ######################### [1/5]
  Installing: ieee80211-kmdl-2.6.17-1.2187 ######################### [2/5]
  Installing: ipw3945d                     ######################### [3/5]
  Installing: ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.17-1.2187_F ######################### [4/5]
  Installing: ipw3945                      ######################### [5/5]

Installed: ipw3945.i386 0:1.1.0-13.fc5.at
Dependency Installed: ieee80211-kmdl-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5.i686 0:1.2.15-14.fc5.at ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5.i686 0:1.1.0-13.fc5.at ipw3945-ucode.noarch 0:1.13-2.at ipw3945d.i386 0:1.7.22-4.at
Complete!

But when I run '/sbin/ipw3945d' I get:

[root@bellsouth ~]# /sbin/ipw3945d
ipw3945d - regulatory daemon
Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
version: 1.7.22
2006-09-26 15:54:07: ERROR: Could not find Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection

If anyone knows what is going on here I sure could use your help. Thanks in advance.

gr

[storskogen]

FC6
I installed the drivers from Intels homepage, ipw3945-1.1.0 and ieee80211-1.2.15
then i run "./load debug=0" to start the wireless-card.
Then setup with "iwconfig"

My trouble is that i got it working only once, stupid me changed something after that, only dont know what :S

I can email you the files i used

[geeare1]

Thanks for your reply. I gave up on getting the card to work for a couple of days and the next time I went back to it, it started working and has worked fine for the past week?! I don't know what happened but I'm not touching anything!

Thanks again,
gr

[storskogen]

I think thats a great idea!!
I cant get mine working anymore. I'll wait for FC6 Stable before i do anything about it

[ayaboh]

Originally Posted by geeare1

I've been trying to get my wireless card to work for several weeks but no matter what I do I always seem to run into a roadblock of some kind. I just used 'yum install ipw3934' to install the files and everything seemed to work fine:

Running Transaction
  Installing: ipw3945-ucode                ######################### [1/5]
  Installing: ieee80211-kmdl-2.6.17-1.2187 ######################### [2/5]
  Installing: ipw3945d                     ######################### [3/5]
  Installing: ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.17-1.2187_F ######################### [4/5]
  Installing: ipw3945                      ######################### [5/5]

Installed: ipw3945.i386 0:1.1.0-13.fc5.at
Dependency Installed: ieee80211-kmdl-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5.i686 0:1.2.15-14.fc5.at ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5.i686 0:1.1.0-13.fc5.at ipw3945-ucode.noarch 0:1.13-2.at ipw3945d.i386 0:1.7.22-4.at
Complete!

But when I run '/sbin/ipw3945d' I get:

[root@bellsouth ~]# /sbin/ipw3945d
ipw3945d - regulatory daemon
Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
version: 1.7.22
2006-09-26 15:54:07: ERROR: Could not find Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection

If anyone knows what is going on here I sure could use your help. Thanks in advance.

gr

ipw3945d is a daemon. Try modprobe ipw3945d.

[ro4tub]

maybe it's useful for you!
http://statgen.ncsu.edu/~jdstarme/fc5_on_t60.txt

[storskogen]

I´ve got i working again. I missed that i upgraded the kernel and had to install the ieee80211 again..