ipw3945 does not work in XPS M1210

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IsraelBuitronD · Post by **IsraelBuitronD** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 6:22 pm

Hi !!!!!!

After update ipw3945 My wirelees does not work.
When I check dmesg, show me this:

neobalam # dmesg
...
ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io=1)
ieee1394: sbp2: Try serialize_io=0 for better performance
eth1394: eth1: IEEE-1394 IPv4 over 1394 Ethernet (fw-host0)
...
Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
IPv4 over IPv4 tunneling driver
ip_conntrack version 2.4 (8116 buckets, 64928 max) - 204 bytes per conntrack
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
TCP bic registered
TCP veno registered
TCP lp registered
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
...
ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP'
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'CCMP'
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'TKIP'
Starting balanced_irq
Using IPI Shortcut mode
rtc-test rtc-test.0: setting the system clock to 2007-02-15 12:40:49 (1171543249)
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
Time: acpi_pm clocksource has been installed.
ReiserFS: sda7: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
PM: Adding info for ieee1394:384fc00035d64d41
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[384fc00035d64d41]
PM: Adding info for ieee1394:384fc00035d64d41-0
...
VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 328k freed
...
ieee80211_crypt: exports duplicate symbol ieee80211_crypt_deinit_entries (owned by kernel)
ieee80211: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_get_crypto_ops
ieee80211: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_crypto_ops
ieee80211: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_crypt_deinit_entries
ieee80211: Unknown symbol ieee80211_crypt_deinit_entries
ieee80211: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_crypt_delayed_deinit
ieee80211: Unknown symbol ieee80211_crypt_delayed_deinit
ieee80211: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_crypt_quiescing
ieee80211: Unknown symbol ieee80211_crypt_quiescing
ieee80211_crypt: exports duplicate symbol ieee80211_crypt_deinit_entries (owned by kernel)
ieee80211: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_get_crypto_ops
ieee80211: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_crypto_ops
ieee80211: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_crypt_deinit_entries
ieee80211: Unknown symbol ieee80211_crypt_deinit_entries
ieee80211: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_crypt_delayed_deinit
ieee80211: Unknown symbol ieee80211_crypt_delayed_deinit
ieee80211: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_crypt_quiescing
ieee80211: Unknown symbol ieee80211_crypt_quiescing
ipw3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945 Network Connection driver for Linux, 1.2.0dmpr
ipw3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
...
ipw3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
ieee80211_crypt: exports duplicate symbol ieee80211_crypt_deinit_entries (owned by kernel)
ieee80211: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_get_crypto_ops
ieee80211: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_crypto_ops
ieee80211: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_crypt_deinit_entries
ieee80211: Unknown symbol ieee80211_crypt_deinit_entries
ieee80211: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_crypt_delayed_deinit
ieee80211: Unknown symbol ieee80211_crypt_delayed_deinit
ieee80211: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_crypt_quiescing
ieee80211: Unknown symbol ieee80211_crypt_quiescing
....
b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.

my /etc/conf.d/ipw3495:

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neobalam # cat /etc/conf.d/ipw3945d
# /etc/conf.d/ipw3945d: config file for /etc/init.d/ipw3945d

# Arguments to be passed to ipw3945d. See 'ipw3945d --help' for more
# information.
#ARGS="--timeout=-1 --quiet --version"
ARGS="--timeout=-1 --version --foreground"
neobalam #

and my /etc/init.d/ipw3945d :

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neobalam # cat /etc/init.d/ipw3945d
#!/sbin/runscript
# Copyright 1999-2006 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-wireless/ipw3945d/files/ipw3945d-init.d,v 1.4 2006/12/22 10:11:26 phreak Exp $

PIDFILE=/var/run/ipw3945d/ipw3945d.pid

depend() {
        before net
}

check() {
        # Let's check if the pidfile is still present.
        if [ -f "${PIDFILE}" ] ; then
                eerror "The pidfile ($PIDFILE) is still present."
                eerror "Please check that the daemon isn't running!"
                return 1
        fi
}

start() {
        check
        ebegin "Starting ipw3945d"
        chown ipw3945d /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw3945/00*/cmd
        chmod a-w,u+rw /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw3945/00*/cmd
        start-stop-daemon --start --exec /sbin/ipw3945d --pidfile ${PIDFILE} -- \
                --pid-file=${PIDFILE} ${ARGS}
        eend ${?}
}

stop() {
        ebegin "Stopping ipw3945d"
        start-stop-daemon --stop --exec /sbin/ipw3945d --pidfile ${PIDFILE}
        eend ${?}
}
neobalam #

Please helpme.

Thanks you

Sedrik · Post by **Sedrik** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:12 am

You probably dont have ipw3945. I certainly dont in my M1210.

Our card is called broadcoam43xx and there are drivers under developement for it.

check http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/ for more info

Lloeki · Post by **Lloeki** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:19 am

Sedrik, let me correct you. I have a XPS M1210 and a ipw3945. and it works.

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# lspci |grep 3945
0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)

and obviously, Neoriddle has, too:

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ipw3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection

NeoRiddle, which version of ipw3945 / ipw3945d / ieee80211 / kernel are you using? it seems your ieee80211 subsystem is going nuts.

FWIW I use:
ipw3945-1.2.0
ipw3945d-1.7.22-r4
ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2
suspend2-sources-2.6.19-r2
ieee80211 from kernel

TenPin · Post by **TenPin** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 4:50 pm

I just got ipw3945 to work beautifully. To do this I did the following:

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emerge --sync
rc-update del ipw3945d
emerge -C coldplug
emerge -C ipw3945 ipw3945d ipw3945-ucode ieee80211
[installed kernel 2.6.20 manually with built in ieee80211 stack then rebooted]
emerge wpa_supplicant
emerge ipw3945 ipw3945d ipw3945-ucode
emerge module-init-tools (this needed updgrading for udev to work properly for me)
modprobe ipw3945

First I tested connecting to an unencrypted access point using only iwconfig and dhcpcd. Then I tested connecting to a WPA access point using:

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#/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1

network={
        ssid="Boiler"
        psk="password"
        priority=10
        scan_ssid=1
}

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wpa_supplicant -Dwext -ieth1 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

If you can get the above command to work then the only thing left to do is making your network boot scripts work the way you want.

With this setup I found that the wireless LED on my laptop came on automatically on boot. With my previous setup I had to have an init script that did this:

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echo 0 > /sys/class/net/eth1/device/rf_kill

grantonstar · Post by **grantonstar** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 2:31 am

The ieee80211 errors from your dmesg output will cause problems. Are you using the built-in kernel 80211 drivers or the external package (you can only use one or the other)?

I'd recommend doing a "make clean" and using the 80211 drivers in the kernel.

IsraelBuitronD · Post by **IsraelBuitronD** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 11:31 pm

I have ipw3945:

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neobalam # lspci | grep 3945
0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)
neobalam #

version of ipw3945 / ipw3945d / ieee80211 / kernel:

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neobalam # emerge -va ipw3945 ipw3945d ieee80211

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] net-wireless/ipw3945-1.2.0  USE="-debug" 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] net-wireless/ipw3945d-1.7.22-r4  0 kB
[ebuild  N    ] net-wireless/ieee80211-1.1.13-r1  USE="-debug" 0 kB

Total: 3 packages (1 new, 2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 0 kB

Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] no

Quitting.

neobalam #

ieee80211 is in kernel:

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neobalam # cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep "80211"
CONFIG_IEEE80211=y
# CONFIG_IEEE80211_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_WEP=y
CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_CCMP=y
CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_TKIP=y
CONFIG_IEEE80211_SOFTMAC=y
# CONFIG_IEEE80211_SOFTMAC_DEBUG is not set
neobalam #

and my kernel is:

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neobalam # uname -a
Linux neobalam 2.6.18-gentoo-r6 #13 SMP PREEMPT Wed Feb 14 21:15:40 CST 2007 i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU           T2300  @ 1.66GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
neobalam #

I have did, your suggestions TenPin, but when i run modprobe show me that:

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neobalam # modprobe ipw3945
WARNING: Error inserting ieee80211_crypt (/lib/modules/2.6.18-gentoo-r6/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt.ko): Invalid module format
WARNING: Error inserting ieee80211 (/lib/modules/2.6.18-gentoo-r6/net/ieee80211/ieee80211.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
neobalam #

and running again dmesg shows this:

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ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP'
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'CCMP'
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'TKIP'
...
ieee80211_crypt: exports duplicate symbol ieee80211_crypt_deinit_entries (owned by kernel)
ieee80211: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_get_crypto_ops
ieee80211: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_crypto_ops
ieee80211: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_crypt_deinit_entries
ieee80211: Unknown symbol ieee80211_crypt_deinit_entries
ieee80211: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_crypt_delayed_deinit
ieee80211: Unknown symbol ieee80211_crypt_delayed_deinit
ieee80211: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_crypt_quiescing
ieee80211: Unknown symbol ieee80211_crypt_quiescing
ieee80211_crypt: exports duplicate symbol ieee80211_crypt_deinit_entries (owned by kernel)
ieee80211: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_get_crypto_ops
ieee80211: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_crypto_ops
ieee80211: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_crypt_deinit_entries
ieee80211: Unknown symbol ieee80211_crypt_deinit_entries
ieee80211: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_crypt_delayed_deinit
ieee80211: Unknown symbol ieee80211_crypt_delayed_deinit
ieee80211: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_crypt_quiescing
ieee80211: Unknown symbol ieee80211_crypt_quiescing
ipw3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945 Network Connection driver for Linux, 1.2.0dmpr
ipw3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:0c:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:0c:00.0 to 64
ipw3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
ieee80211_crypt: exports duplicate symbol ieee80211_crypt_deinit_entries (owned by kernel)
ieee80211: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_get_crypto_ops
ieee80211: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_crypto_ops
ieee80211: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_crypt_deinit_entries
ieee80211: Unknown symbol ieee80211_crypt_deinit_entries
ieee80211: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_crypt_delayed_deinit
ieee80211: Unknown symbol ieee80211_crypt_delayed_deinit
ieee80211: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_crypt_quiescing
ieee80211: Unknown symbol ieee80211_crypt_quiescing
...
ieee80211_crypt: exports duplicate symbol ieee80211_crypt_deinit_entries (owned by kernel)
ieee80211: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_get_crypto_ops
ieee80211: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_crypto_ops
ieee80211: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_crypt_deinit_entries
ieee80211: Unknown symbol ieee80211_crypt_deinit_entries
ieee80211: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_crypt_delayed_deinit
ieee80211: Unknown symbol ieee80211_crypt_delayed_deinit
ieee80211: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_crypt_quiescing
ieee80211: Unknown symbol ieee80211_crypt_quiescing
neobalam #

Thank you for your help

TenPin · Post by **TenPin** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:04 am

NeoRiddle, you need to use kernel 2.6.20 and use the version of ieee80211 built into it. You seem to be using 2.6.18.

You will want to completely remove the version of ieee80211 that is in portage:

emerge -C ipw3945 ipw3945d ipw3945-ucode ieee80211

You may also need to emerge module-init-tools to upgrade them.

IsraelBuitronD · Post by **IsraelBuitronD** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:49 am

i dont upgrde kernel because i have some problem on boottime. I have tried with gentoo-sources (linux-2.6.19-gentoo-r5) and with mm-sources (linux-2.6.20-rc6-mm1), but they dont boot mi hard disk, and it's rare because the same grub.conf I'm using. So I have this kernel version.

TenPin · Post by **TenPin** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:27 am

What is your problem at boot with 2.6.20.

I'm using a Dell E1405/640m which will be fairly similar hardware to your Dell XPS so you should be able to get it to work.

broken_chaos · Post by **broken_chaos** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:11 am

My M1210 works perfectly with ipw3945, 2.6.19 (suspend2-r2 to be exact), and (on the relevant packages, at least) amd64 stable. Oh, and I'm using wpa_supplicant, but it probably doesn't make a difference for your current problem.

Relevant pieces of various configurations:

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cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep IEEE80211
CONFIG_IEEE80211=y
# CONFIG_IEEE80211_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_WEP=y
CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_CCMP=y
CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_TKIP=y
# CONFIG_IEEE80211_SOFTMAC is not set

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emerge -pv ipw3945 ipw3945d ipw3945-ucode

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] net-wireless/ipw3945-1.2.0  USE="-debug" 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] net-wireless/ipw3945d-1.7.22-r4  0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] net-wireless/ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2  0 kB

Total: 3 packages (3 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 0 kB

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dmesg | grep ipw3945
ipw3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945 Network Connection driver for Linux, 1.2.0dmpr
ipw3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
ipw3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
ipw3945: Detected geography ABG (11 802.11bg channels, 13 802.11a channels)

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dmesg | grep ieee80211
ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP'
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'CCMP'
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'TKIP'

IsraelBuitronD · Post by **IsraelBuitronD** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 6:27 pm

i continue having problem, check this:

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neobalam  # emerge -pv ipw3945 ipw3945d ipw3945-ucode

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] net-wireless/ipw3945-1.2.0  USE="-debug" 196 kB
[ebuild   R   ] net-wireless/ipw3945d-1.7.22-r4  59 kB
[ebuild   R   ] net-wireless/ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2  63 kB

Total: 3 packages (3 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 317 kB
neobalam  # cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep IEEE80211
CONFIG_IEEE80211=y
# CONFIG_IEEE80211_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_WEP=y
CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_CCMP=y
CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_TKIP=y
CONFIG_IEEE80211_SOFTMAC=y
# CONFIG_IEEE80211_SOFTMAC_DEBUG is not set
neobalam  # dmesg | grep ipw3945
neobalam  # dmesg | grep ieee80211
neobalam  #

I use wireless-tools and no wpa_supplicant:

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neobalam neoriddle # emerge -pv wpa_supplicant wireless-tools

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N    ] net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-0.5.7  USE="qt3 qt4 readline ssl -dbus -gnutls -gsm -madwifi" 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] net-wireless/wireless-tools-28  USE="nls -multicall" 0 kB

Total: 2 packages (1 new, 1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
neobalam neoriddle #

Which is the diferences between them? Can they coexists?

broken_chaos · Post by **broken_chaos** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 5:19 am

Part of your problem might be (almost certainly is) trying to use ipw3945-1.2.0 with a 2.6.18 kernel (with the built-in ieee80211 stack, I think - causing module conflicts, as well). Upgrade to 2.6.19 or 2.6.20 (whichever you feel comfortable with), remove the ieee80211 package, and use the in-kernel modules.