[Cialug] Intel PRO/Wireless ipw3945

[Tony Bibbs]

Well, finally got it working.  First problem was the driver's .ko files weren't in /lib/modules where they were expected.  After that I had a problem where pcmcia was trying to latch onto the card which it wasn't a pcmcia card.  I disabled pcmcia and it worked fine.  At some point I may need pcmcia which means finding out how to tell pcmcia not to do what it was doing but for now I'm fine.

Works fine except for I can't get knetworkmanager to configure my wireless network properly.  I end up having to run iwconfig to do that.  What's even odder is if I configure the card and get connected when I run knetworkmanager it doesn't notice the card is already configured.  Is knetworkmanager broke? If so is there a good alternative?  I just assume get out of using command line for wifi configuration given I do jump networks from time-to-time.

--Tony

----- Original Message ----
From: Jesse Welling <jesse.welling at gmail.com>
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 6:03:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Intel PRO/Wireless ipw3945

I'm using the ipw 3945 as well. I was using Ubuntu 6.06 up until
recently when Debian Etch came out. I had to enable the contrib and
non-free repositories though to get firmware-ipw3945 and ipw3945d.

I'm using revision 2 of the chipset...don't know if that would have
any effect....

You might find some more information from the sourceforge site if you
haven't tried that yet. I also found this
http://plug.phoenix.az.us/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=103&Itemid=27
 hope it helps.....

On 4/25/07, Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 09:41 -0500, Tim Wilson wrote:
> > In my travails to get my Netgear card running under NDISWrapper, I
> > discovered that some kernels are using a 4k stack, and others are
> > using larger stacks.  Some cards/drivers require a larger stack
> > (reasons I don't understand).
>
> Windows uses an 8K stack I believe, so some Windows drivers use more
> than the 4K that Linux allocates which causes obvious problems.
>
> >   But, it might be worth a shot to see if
> > you can get a kernel with a bigger stack, or recompile it with a
> > bigger stack.  FWIW, I got my card running under OpenSuse, using an
> > alternate pre-compiled kernel.
>
> That shouldn't be necessary with the ipw3945 card - Intel has been very
> good recently about providing real open source drivers for their gear
> and getting them integrated upstream in the kernel and X.org.
>
> Jeff
>
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