ipw3945

[lundberry]

I am not sure what to do I have an ipw3945 card that had come with my laptop and I can't get the installation to work.

[root@localhost ipw3945-1.2.0]# wget http://bughost.org/ipw3945/ucode/ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2.tgz
--06:42:22-- http://bughost.org/ipw3945/ucode/ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2.tgz
Resolving bughost.org... 204.253.143.234
Connecting to bughost.org|204.253.143.234|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 63871 (62K) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2.tgz.5'

100%[=======================================>] 63,871 174K/s in 0.4s

06:42:23 (174 KB/s) - `ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2.tgz.5' saved [63871/63871]

[root@localhost ipw3945-1.2.0]# DIR=$(sed -ne "s:^FIRMWARE_DIR=\([^, ]*\).*:\1:p" \
>
CHANGES ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2.tgz
dvals ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2.tgz.1
FILES ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2.tgz.2
GIT_SHA1 ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2.tgz.3
INSTALL ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2.tgz.4
in-tree/ ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2.tgz.5
ipw3945.c ISSUES
ipw3945_daemon.h LICENSE
ipw3945.h LICENSE.BSD
ipw3945.ko LICENSE.GPL
.ipw3945.ko.cmd load
ipw3945.mod.c Makefile
ipw3945.mod.o Module.symvers
.ipw3945.mod.o.cmd README.ipw3945
ipw3945.o snapshot/
.ipw3945.o.cmd tmp/
ipw3945.o.lst unload
ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2/
> /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent)
sed: can't read /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent: No such file or directory
[root@localhost ipw3945-1.2.0]# tar xzvf ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2.tgz
ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2/
ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2/ipw3945.ucode
ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2/LICENSE.ipw3945-ucode
ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2/README.ipw3945-ucode
[root@localhost ipw3945-1.2.0]#

This is the point at which I make it too and Have no clue whether I messed something up or why I get the messages I get I have a feeling that I messed something up there but am not sure what it might be. I did perform the make function before that entire sequence. But I think it might be something having to do with a directory problem but I do not know. I am used to most things in linux but this is one thing that I can not for the life of me figure out. If someone could help me it would be greatly appreciated.

[shreeram13]

Even I am facing the same problem. I have Toshiba Satellite Intel Centrino Core Duo laptop with IPW3945 wi-fi card.

I installed stable FC6 from DVD and then updated the OS with yum -y update; which updated my kernel to 2.6.20* from 2.6.18

I read the forums and tried installing following packages in the same sequence as given below

1. ieee80211-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6-1.2.16-17.fc6.at.i686.rpm
2. ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6-1.2.0-18.2.fc6.at.i686.rpm
3. ipw3945-1.2.0-18.2.fc6.at.i386.rpm
4. ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2-4.at.noarch.rpm
5. ipw3945d-1.7.22-4.at.i386.rpm

But no luck can some one help?

Regards,

Shreeram

[abiyani]

Have you replaced 586 kernel (default/bug) with 686? Do you have /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethx
and keys-ethx? In /etc/modprobe.conf, add "alias ethx ipw3945". The "x" in ethx is either 0 or 1. Copy
ipw..-ucode to /lib/firmware. ipw3945d to /sbin. Do a "make" and "make install" wherever you have
unpacked ipw3945-1.2.0... I did not need ...kmdl... ieee80211 is already built into the kernel. Finally,
in ipw-1-2.0.. read the instructions. Try "./load debug=0".

Arun

[abiyani]

Finally wireless works nicely. Fedora 9. Typed sys-config-network. Double click on wlan0.
Select "Controlled by Network Manager". Save, exit. Reboot. That's it. Thanks Network
Manager. Actually on reboot, network did not come up due to my password. I clicked on
Network icon, supplied the password (first time only).

Arun

[blittle]

I use ipw3945abg and wifi-radar instead of network-manager.

seems to work well.

[bbfuller]

Just to say that there are two drivers for an intel 3945abg card.

In Fedora 8 and 9 the default driver is iwl3945 and it works very well with most 3945 cards. Just a few exhibit a problem that requires a single line addition to modprobe.conf.

The very early implementations of that driver did have problems, however any updated F8 and F9 should work easily.

Fedora 7 has a version of that driver as well that seems to be up to date though because F7 is no longer supported I'm not sure just how up to date it is.

The only real reason to be using the ipw3945 driver is where iwl3945 is not available. That may relate to Fedora 6 and earlier, but as they are no longer supported and you wouldn't be getting security updates, it would probably be a good idea to consider a reinstall with a new Fedora.

Anyone wants to talk about that post back.

[DZ*]

In Fedora 8 and 9 the default driver is iwl3945 and it works very well with most 3945 cards. Just a few exhibit a problem that requires a single line addition to modprobe.conf...
Anyone wants to talk about that post back.

In Fedora 9, I had to add "options iwl3945 disable_hw_scan=1", to /etc/modprobe.conf (and the same for iwl4965), otherwise the network would is either not show up, or NetworkManager would keep asking for the WPA password. In my experience, 4965 has been giving a stronger connection.