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Post subject: ipw3945 install does not work with smxi script
 Posted: Oct 17, 2007 - 08:25 PM
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Hello,
I just installed Gaia on my new Dell Vostro 1500. It works but I have trouble with WIFI the module is ipw3945. I loaded these modules with the cable which I unpluged and the rebooted. I rerun (after complete du and kernel change with the script) the script to install the ipw3945 module.
the message of the script was : I'm sorry, but the script could not locate that module....
the remote script sm-versions could not be accessed (of course I am offline and want to install the WIFI module).
What must I do ? How can I access this sm-versions script?
thanks for help
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Post subject: RE: ipw3945 install does not work with smxi script
Posted: Oct 17, 2007 - 09:16 PM
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Post subject: RE: ipw3945 install does not work with smxi script
Posted: Oct 18, 2007 - 04:07 AM
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Thanks, but it does not work!
Vista is installed also and shows the vostro uses Intel pro 3945ABG WIFI card.
Is it maybe not yet supported ? |
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Post subject: RE: ipw3945 install does not work with smxi script
Posted: Oct 18, 2007 - 08:26 AM
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| ...it is supported and judging from recent feedback it also works, current kernels preferred. |
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Post subject: RE: ipw3945 install does not work with smxi script
Posted: Oct 18, 2007 - 03:26 PM
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I have that card and it does work ( led won't turn on, off course, but it connects ). You need to follow what sprinter1's link says for ipw3945, even the modprobe lines. If you don't have success, post whatever error you got in here for more support or go to IRC.
Probably what you need to do first is install a new kernel and dist-upgrade with smxi with your wired cable, make sure the iwl3945 module is working, set up the wireless card, and make sure it connects |
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Post subject: RE: ipw3945 install does not work with smxi script
Posted: Oct 18, 2007 - 04:53 PM
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| LED support is currently under development upstream, but those have no influence on functionality at all. |
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Post subject: Still not working
Posted: Oct 18, 2007 - 05:10 PM
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The led does not work, and I have no connection.
I cannot try again until monday and will post the error messages by then when trying to connect.
Thank you for your help anyway
hoogewoud |
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Post subject: RE: Still not working
Posted: Oct 22, 2007 - 04:40 AM
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back again!
The card is recognized in netcardconfig. iwconfig gives:
root@VostroLinux:/home/HoogAdmin# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"MY_ESSID"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:MY_Password
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
At the end of netcardconfig I get :
Done.
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.wlan0.pid with pid 3245
killed old client process, removed PID file
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6
Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:1b:77:c7:aa:c3
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:1b:77:c7:aa:c3
Sending on Socket/fallback
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6
Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:1b:77:c7:aa:c3
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:1b:77:c7:aa:c3
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
An here the output of lsmod | sort
root@VostroLinux:/home/HoogAdmin# lsmod |sort
ac 6532 0
acpi_cpufreq 10540 1
af_packet 25096 4
ahci 24708 8
arc4 3072 2
ata_generic 8708 0
ata_piix 18564 0
b44 28432 0
battery 13192 0
blkcipher 7812 1 ecb
bluetooth 58852 3 rfcomm,l2cap,hci_usb
button 9232 0
capability 6024 0
cdrom 37536 1 sr_mod
cfg80211 14856 1 mac80211
commoncap 8448 1 capability
cpufreq_ondemand 9740 1
cpufreq_powersave 2816 0
crc_itu_t 3200 1 firewire_core
dm_crypt 14984 0
dm_mirror 25344 0
dm_mod 59712 3 dm_crypt,dm_mirror,dm_snapshot
dm_snapshot 19880 0
ecb 4736 2
ehci_hcd 36108 0
evdev 11392 9
ext3 135432 2
fan 6020 0
fat 54428 1 vfat
ff_memless 7048 1 usbhid
firewire_core 43968 1 firewire_ohci
firewire_ohci 18816 0
freq_table 5792 2 cpufreq_ondemand,acpi_cpufreq
fuse 47252 9
hci_usb 16924 0
i2c_core 26240 2 nvidia,i2c_i801
i2c_i801 10128 0
ieee1394 94904 1 ohci1394
intel_agp 25620 0
ipv6 275108 12
iwl3945 90472 0
jbd 62504 1 ext3
joydev 11456 0
l2cap 26624 3 rfcomm
libata 124980 3 ata_piix,ahci,ata_generic
lp 13832 0
mac80211 155408 1 iwl3945
mii 6656 1 b44
mmc_core 30084 1 sdhci
Module Size Used by
nls_cp437 6912 1
nls_iso8859_1 5248 1
nvidia 6221520 26
ohci1394 33968 0
output 4992 1 video
parport 38088 2 ppdev,lp
pcmcia 41644 1 ssb
pcmcia_core 41368 1 pcmcia
pcspkr 4224 0
ppdev 10500 0
processor 35848 4 acpi_cpufreq,thermal
psmouse 40976 0
rfcomm 42648 0
sdhci 19340 0
sd_mod 30848 9
serio_raw 8196 0
sg 36124 0
snd 55556 5 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_hda_intel 278556 0
snd_mixer_oss 17920 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc 11528 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_pcm 80900 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm_oss 44544 0
snd_timer 24580 1 snd_pcm
soundcore 9312 1 snd
sr_mod 19108 0
ssb 35204 1 b44
thermal 16412 0
uhci_hcd 26636 0
usbcore 137736 5 hci_usb,usbhid,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
usbhid 44928 0
vfat 14976 1
video 19344 14
I Still have not clue why I cannot connect. My other laptops connect with the same gaia configuration!
Any idea?
Greeting
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Post subject: RE: Still not working
Posted: Oct 26, 2007 - 04:20 AM
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Further try:
ifup wlan0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6
Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:1b:77:c7:aa:c3
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:1b:77:c7:aa:c3
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 17
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
Still no connection.
lsusb gives:
lsusb
Bus 007 Device 006: ID 2735:0003
Bus 007 Device 004: ID 05a9:2640 OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0a5c:4503 Broadcom Corp.
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0a5c:4502 Broadcom Corp.
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 413c:8126 Dell Computer Corp.
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 046d:c521 Logitech, Inc.
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c019 Logitech, Inc.
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
and ifconfig
ifconfig
eth0 Lien encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1C:23:9B:44:D8
inet adr:192.168.123.151 Bcast:192.168.123.255 Masque:255.255.255.0
adr inet6: fe80::21c:23ff:fe9b:44d8/64 Scope:Lien
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6673 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5062 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000
RX bytes:7259473 (6.9 MiB) TX bytes:611146 (596.8 KiB)
Interruption:17
lo Lien encap:Boucle locale
inet adr:127.0.0.1 Masque:255.0.0.0
adr inet6: ::1/128 Scope:Hôte
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:48 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:48 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 lg file transmission:0
RX bytes:2400 (2.3 KiB) TX bytes:2400 (2.3 KiB)
wlan0 Lien encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1B:77:C7:AA:C3
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 lg file transmission:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
wmaster0 Lien encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-1B-77-C7-AA-C3-65-74-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
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 lg file transmission:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
How can I connect ???????
Thank you for help!
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Post subject: RE: Still not working
Posted: Oct 26, 2007 - 02:13 PM
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I have had similar issues with my Dell XPS 1210 (maybe it's something to do with Dell and their ipw3945) and found that I had to run "iwlist wlan0 scanning" to get it to come to life so it would associate with my access point. After running that command (and seeing my network) I can just do "/etc/init.d networking restart" to bring things up to life properly.
Unfortunately I was doing this every time I rebooted (never even tried to add any script to try and do it automatically). Interestingly the problem dissappeared with the last test build I did so perhaps a bug has been fixed in the latest kernel or some other code. |
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Posted: Oct 26, 2007 - 06:28 PM
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Thank you for the trick.
I have to do :
iwlist wlan0 scanning
ifdown wlan0
ifup wlan0
then is works!
Wondering what is the cause?
Where might be the bug?
Thank you anyway
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Posted: Oct 26, 2007 - 06:30 PM
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| please try kernel >= 2.6.23.1-slh*-smp-16. |
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Posted: Oct 26, 2007 - 07:10 PM
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I tried the new kernel smp-16 ... it does not work!
The wifi card is recognized but I do not get any IP adress with dhcp.
even when I type frist iwlist wlan0 scanning and then ifdown ... if up wlan0.
So I installed smp-9 ( I had smp-8 before). I does not connect immediately, but as with kernel smp-8 I can connect after
iwlist wlan0 scanning
ifdown wlan0
ifup wlan0
Some mystery?
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Posted: Nov 06, 2007 - 05:54 PM
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I can confirm the auto connect problems with iwl3945.
My troubleshooting shows this issue is only with WEP Encryption.
With WPA Encryption I have no probs anymore. |
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Posted: Nov 07, 2007 - 07:42 PM
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hello;
i use a dell inspiron 9400; iwp3945 it is not used anymore by me,
sid:/home/nick# infobash -v3
Host/Kernel/OS "sid" running Linux 2.6.23.1-slh64-smp-22 x86_64 [ sidux 2007-02 - Τάρταρος - kde-full - (200705281446) ]
CPU Info (1) Intel Core2 T5500 @ 2048 KB cache flags( sse sse2 nx lm pni vmx ) clocked at [ 1000.000 MHz ]
(2) Intel Core2 T5500 @ 2048 KB cache flags( sse sse2 nx lm pni vmx ) clocked at [ 1000.000 MHz ]
Videocard ATI Radeon Mobility X1400 X.Org 1.4-3 [ 1440x900 @60hz ]
Network cards Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
Broadcom BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
Processes 103 | Uptime 2:49 | Memory 326.0/2014.3MB | HDD ATA SAMSUNG HM160JI Size 160GB (22%used) | GLX Renderer ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 | GLX Version 2.0.6958 Release | Client Shell | Infobash v2.67
the LED it is not working; but KWiFiManager in botoom right is enough for wireless visual control; Fn+F2=on/off wireless;
when i play wrong with network config files, then i just type as root user:
ifdown -a #to shutdown all interfaces
ifup -a #to start all interfaces (inclusive wireless)
for power save I just tried as I read at http://www.lesswatts.org/tips/wireless.php
sid:/home/nick# echo 5 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/iwl3945/0000\:0c\:00.0/power_level
sid:/home/nick# cat /sys/bus/pci/drivers/iwl3945/0000\:0c\:00.0/power_level
5 (Timeout 25ms, Period 1000ms)
if something crash the wireless; because of cache of apt-get install is not cleaned, as sidux wiki said, just install again firmware+iwl3945, not ipw3945
i am a novice at linux, but as long as i have wire network integrated, wireless can be crash and repair at will; |
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