ipw3945 wireless drivers

beatryder · Veteran Joined: 08 Apr 2005 Posts: 1138

As you read in the bug report I am using it yes.
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VinzC · Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 12:43 am Post subject:

I believe an init script for loading the daemon could cause troubles in certain circumstances. Antek Grzymala, does your laptop successfully load the daemon when the module is loaded using the insert/remove instructions (in the module config file)?
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Boomer · Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 1:33 am Post subject:

FINALLY!

I solved my problems by adding ipw3945d to the depend() function in /etc/init.d/net.lo as in :

trautenberg · n00b Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 4 Location: Prague

thanks VinzC. I got it working!!! I only cannot recompile the kernel anymore. After I removed all the old files, recompiling the kernel gives me an error

VinzC · Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 5:22 am Post subject:

@trautenberg,

Run the following command again [answering "yes" throughout] and recompile; the error message should go way:

ONEEYEMAN · Veteran Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 1727

Hi, guys,
Thank you for this thread. It is very helpful.
I am just trying to install the wireless support for my Dell Wireless 1390 802.11g Mini-Card. I got the system up and running, and now, according to the following link, part "7. KERNEL REQUIREMENTS - Configuration" I have to set some aditional stuff.
I am using the latest stable kernel (2.6.17-r4-gentoo-sources), and my question is:

According to his part, I have to enable "Library routines -> CRC32 functions" as a module. However, when I looked at this option with "menuconfig", it's not accessible, I can't turn it on. When I looked at the help part, I can see that it depend on some huge list of options. Can someboy shed a light for me what I have to turn on for that to be accessible?

Also, do I have to use "modules" when configuring the kernel, or I can compile the "module" support in the kernel?

And, as far as I understood from this thread, all I will need to do afterwards, is:

1. Re-compile the kernel.
2. Load additional modules.
3. Reboot into the new kernel.
4. "emerge ipw3945".

Anything I missed?

Thank you.

VinzC · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:24 pm Post subject:

ONEEYEMAN · Veteran Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 1727

ONEEYEMAN · Veteran Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 1727

OK,
The config option "CONFIG_CRC32" says following in the "Help" section of 2.6.17-r4-gentoo-sources:

VinzC · Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:32 am Post subject:

Given the numerous conditions that make CONFIG_CRC32 selected I'd say that you don't have to worry. CONFIG_CRC32 *will*be selected for you whenever you select, in the kernel configuration, the appropriate options that depend on CRC32. In fact there are quite a few options in the kernel that are selected automatically using the same mechanism. This is the case with CRC32.

So don't worry at all why you can't select it. I couldn't either and the system is working properly. Trust the makers of menuconfig for having things done automatically for you. Of course Intel has some recommendations but I didn't have to compile CRC32 as a module - for I simply had no choice. And it's working perfectly even though. So - I repeat - don't worry. Just tick (or emerge) the drivers for your hardware, compile and that's it

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As a final note, this is what I have in Library routines:

MrWolf · n00b Joined: 09 Mar 2005 Posts: 9

Hello all,

Up until tonight I thought I was connecting to my access point , well iwconfig was telling me it was connected to my access point but I was in the same boat as a lot of people, very confused as to why I could not actually get any network connectivity.

Here is how I fixed my issue:

After a lot of playing around I discovered that my access points channel number was 13 I manually tried to specify that on the cli using:

ONEEYEMAN · Veteran Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 1727

Thank you for the reply, VinzC.
Given that when upgraing the kernel, you are talking about ieee80211, do I need to select this options in my kernel?

VinzC · Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:58 pm Post subject:

No, you don't need kernel ieee802.11 support. However compiling the kernel first will strangely enough create a bunch of files that you need to remove *after* the first compile. Otherwise you'd get a warning when emerging ieee80211 and would be required to run the remove-all script again to proceed.
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ONEEYEMAN · Veteran Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 1727

VinzC · Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 9:58 am Post subject:

The reason is both (kernel and portage) versions are mutually exclusive. So use one, remove the other. Note, in cases I was a little unclear, you don't need to run the remove-all script *every* time you recompile your kernel but right after the first time you compiled it.
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ONEEYEMAN · Veteran Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 1727

okapi

Hi Forum,

I browsed thru the forum but did find any similar bug. But then again the thread is already quite lenghty.

I tried to install ipw3945 on my system. It builds fine and the module loads but only when the hardware kill switch is on.
The moment that I put the kill switch to off the system hard freezes.

My kernel is gentoo-sources-2.6.17-r4 with my own config.
I even tried with a genkernel vanilla config.

I tried with almost any version of ieee80211, ipw3945, ipw3945d and ipw3945-ucode with exactly the same result.

As a fallback method, I tried to manually patch the kernel but the compile stops with a IEEE80211_VERSION not defined error.

My system is a Toshiba A100 SK9: Intel T2500 Centrino Core Duo 2.0GHz.

Did someone encountered a similar problem.
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beatryder · Veteran Joined: 08 Apr 2005 Posts: 1138

ONEEYEMAN · Veteran Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 1727

Thank you beatrider.

VinzC · Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 9:06 pm Post subject:

VinzC · Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 9:10 pm Post subject:

adlaiff6 · Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 6:38 am Post subject:

I just started having a problem with the card in my Dell Inspiron E1505. It was working perfectly before, then I started messing around with ACPI and did something to make it so that I have to hit Fn+F2 (the wireless switch) to get it working, which was no problem for a while.

Last night, I tried to connect to a hotel's wireless router. No page would fully load (although they would start), while I could connect to IRC servers, not even a MOTD would show, and IMs were very very slow and unreliable. Today I tried using the wireless connection again, and it messed up even worse. I eventually figured out that if both ipw3945d was started, and the Fn+F2 switch was telling the card to be on, the computer would become unresponsive (as the WiFi LED blinked slowly). Strangely, by "unresponsive" I mean that, while the computer would continue to run (if ipw3945d were started in the boot sequence, it would continue booting and end at the login prompt), and even the cursor would blink, but no input would be received, including background things like switching consoles, and I had to hard-reset to do anything. The computer works fine other than that, it's just that if I start ipw3945d and turn the card on, it goes catatonic on me.

Drone1 · Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 5:41 pm Post subject:

I'm at a dead end on this one folks. Have read this entire thread and call no joy.

New Thinkpad T60P. Am running:
- 2.6.17.9
- gcc-3.4.4 (i386 for some reason; should be i686 as is make.conf... ??)
- ~x86

Did the normal modularize IEEE80211 in kernel ( kernel does not allow exclusion; modularize or build-in). Ran the
'/bin/sh /usr/portage/net-wireless/ieee80211/files/remove-old /usr/src/linux' command and prompts for 'y/n' and then to comment out all 'CONFIG_IEEE80211' options in config, 'y/n'. Say yes to both....

Emerge ieee80211 which completes fine. Then try and emerge ipw3945; ipw3945d and ipw3945-ucode were previously emerged. My attempt to emerge ipw3945 produces this:

beatryder · Veteran Joined: 08 Apr 2005 Posts: 1138

you have to NOT select anything to do with ieee80211 in the kernel.
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