[Cialug] Intel PRO/Wireless ipw3945

[Jesse Welling]

I'm guessing you use KDE, but maybe you could get Gnome network
manager to work. http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/ Another
thing is with these kind of managers you often have to have an empty
config file. the Gnome Network Manager requires you have nothing in
your /etc/network/interfaces file except for the loop back. Here is
what Mine looks like:

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
#allow-hotplug eth1
#iface eth1 inet dhcp

As you can see to get the applet to work It has to have full reign
over every interface you wish it to manage.  Although I was once doing
some Bluetooth PAND networking and it didn't touch that so you can
have some stuff in there just nothing ethernet or wlan.

Hope it helps
Jesse W.

On 4/26/07, Tony Bibbs <tony at tonybibbs.com> wrote:
> 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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