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Post subject: Intel 3945 ABG wireless card again
 Posted: Jun 25, 2007 - 10:46 PM
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Hi Folks,
When the new drivers came out iwlwifi I played with them for a few days and then some how disabled the card. Since I need the wireless card to work next week I tried to active it again. Sadly I don't remember what I did or command that I ran to disabled it.
I already did the apt-get update, apt-get install iwlwifi-3945-ucode
result:
Code:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
iwlwifi-3945-ucode is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libsword6 libclucene0
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
a lsmod |grep 3945
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iwl3945 79204 0
mac80211 149636 1 iwl3945
ipw3945 210852 0
ieee80211 35272 1 ipw3945
Neither ifconfig, iwconfig, iwlist, network card configure, control center will see the wireless card. The light for the wifi icon is off. The switch for wifi is ON.
lspci
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0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)
The card did work before.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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Post subject: RE: Intel 3945 ABG wireless card again
Posted: Jun 25, 2007 - 11:06 PM
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grep -R -e iwl -e ipw /etc/modprobe.d/
if anything shows up such as "blacklist iwlwifi", remove that line from the named file. |
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Post subject: Re: RE: Intel 3945 ABG wireless card again
Posted: Jun 26, 2007 - 01:29 AM
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slh wrote:
grep -R -e iwl -e ipw /etc/modprobe.d/
if anything shows up such as "blacklist iwlwifi", remove that line from the named file.
Thanks slh
I get
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grep -R -e iwl -e ipw /etc/modprobe.d/
/etc/modprobe.d/ipw3945d:install ipw3945 modprobe --ignore-install ipw3945 && /etc/init.d/ipw3945d modprobe-start
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ifconfig wlan0 up
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
RR
update:
I feel so dirty, I booted the computer into XP and the wifi light came on and connected to the router. Then I quickly reboot back into sidux  |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Intel 3945 ABG wireless card again
Posted: Jun 26, 2007 - 09:47 AM
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| apt-get remove --purge ipw3945d |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Intel 3945 ABG wireless card again
Posted: Jun 26, 2007 - 05:22 PM
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Try this sequense.I've got the same card and i have to do this sequense every time i boot the pc to get internet(light still not working)
ifconfig wlan0 down
/etc/init.d/networking stop
ifconfig wlan0 up
/etc/init.d/networking start
PS:Do you get a message from the control center that you have to enable the card manually?????That was my case. |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Intel 3945 ABG wireless card again
Posted: Jun 27, 2007 - 11:25 AM
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maybe all those problems are related to the switch from ipw3945d to iwlwifi.
in my case the iwlwifi-stuff never wanted to work as good as the "old" ipw3945 demon.
also most ppl. are confused by the two different firmware-packages...
well.. you have to be careful with this stuff these times. hope they get iwlwifi (really) working soon.
greetings
me |
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Post subject: Re: RE: Re: RE: Intel 3945 ABG wireless card again
Posted: Jun 27, 2007 - 03:59 PM
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jhetfield18 wrote:
Try this sequense.I've got the same card and i have to do this sequense every time i boot the pc to get internet(light still not working)
ifconfig wlan0 down
/etc/init.d/networking stop
ifconfig wlan0 up
/etc/init.d/networking start
PS:Do you get a message from the control center that you have to enable the card manually?????That was my case.
I think its a different issue.
At the moment sidux doesn't see the wireless card.
if I run:
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ifconfig wlan0 down
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
I know the card is there, It works just fine in Winblows. The wireless switch on the side of the laptop is on.
Thanks
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Post subject: Re: RE: Re: RE: Intel 3945 ABG wireless card again
Posted: Jun 27, 2007 - 04:03 PM
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Ge0rgy wrote:
maybe all those problems are related to the switch from ipw3945d to iwlwifi.
in my case the iwlwifi-stuff never wanted to work as good as the "old" ipw3945 demon.
also most ppl. are confused by the two different firmware-packages...
well.. you have to be careful with this stuff these times. hope they get iwlwifi (really) working soon.
greetings
me
I agree, I was able to configure the card using the older drivers. When the new drives came out I was able to see the card but couldn't figure out how to config it properly in the interfaces file. After playing with it for a few days I turn off the wireless card since I didn't need it at that time. Not until the other day did I even think of it. Since I am going away next week and at that place I need a wireless access. 
Thanks
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Post subject: Re: RE: Re: RE: Intel 3945 ABG wireless card again
Posted: Jun 27, 2007 - 04:04 PM
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slh wrote:
apt-get remove --purge ipw3945d
Hi Slh,
Sorry I forgot to reply to you.
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apt-get remove --purge ipw3945d
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package ipw3945d is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Thanks again
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Intel 3945 ABG wireless card again
Posted: Jun 27, 2007 - 05:15 PM
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Look my father helped me solve this prob with the ipw3945 so I don't know every thing he did.All I know is that cause I have Tartaros the driver is already in the system.It's known as he told me.You just have to put in the firmware.And there all you need is the mac80211.After you install the firmware(http://intellinuxwireless.org/?p=iwlwifi&n=HOWTO-iwlwifi) then it should be ok and already enabled in your control center but then you would need to do every thing manually such as the case I told you in my previous post about the down and up of the ifconfig.
Also it's a little strange cause for wireless cards we would be supposed to use i(W)config than ifconfig to down and up the card.Can anyone shed some light to this????? |
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Posted: Jun 28, 2007 - 11:31 AM
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Hi Folks,
I just installed the new test kernel and sidux was able to see and active my wireless card.
One thing I don't understand (well many things but..)
netcard config puts in the interfaces the following:
iface wlan0_ren inet dhcp
Since I am at work. I can't connect to a wireless service. iwlist scan does show some wap but I would need to configure it first.
iwconfig shows this
wlan0_rename IEEE 802.11a ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:5.18 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
is there any difference between wlan0_ren and wlan0_rename?
also what is the reason for the _rename
control center only displays eth0 (wired ethernet) and eth2 (firewire) but no wlan0
thanks
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Posted: Jun 28, 2007 - 12:38 PM
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| Sometimes (way too often), udev gets confused with renaming interfaces (especially after the modules which handled those were changed) and hits race conditions withing the drivers, I'd recommend to delete /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules, reboot and check/ fix /etc/network/interfaces. |
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Posted: Jun 28, 2007 - 01:10 PM
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slh wrote:
Sometimes (way too often), udev gets confused with renaming interfaces (especially after the modules which handled those were changed) and hits race conditions withing the drivers, I'd recommend to delete /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules, reboot and check/ fix /etc/network/interfaces.
Thanks again slh,
I did are you directed. The eth2 is now gone and control center shows the right network cards (eth0 wlan0)
just curious about a new name that is on the list now.
Code:
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:DE:9B:5C:D1
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-18-DE-9B-5C-D1-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
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Posted: Jun 28, 2007 - 01:31 PM
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| wmaster0 is an internal management interface for mac80211 based wlan drivers, it should be mostly ignored (but can be used for very advanced package interaction). |
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Posted: Jun 29, 2007 - 02:27 AM
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UGH!!!
After running sm. It installed a new version of the iwlwifi and now I am back to where I started. no wireless card
RR |
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