Re: ipw3945d starts but not detecting the hardware...

[Michael Pobega <pobega@gmail.com>]

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On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 07:32:15AM +0200, bejnet wrote:
> 
> I compiled from scratch - getting tar of ipw3945-1.2.1.tgz, 
> ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2.tgz and ipw3945d-1.7.22.tgz.
> 
> # ps | grep ipw
> 3961 pts/0    00:00:00 ipw3945d
> 
> # lsmod | grep ipw
> ipw3945               174016  1
> ieee80211              43372  1 ipw3945
> firmware_class          9600  2 ipw3945,pcmcia
> 
> for me iwconfig still doesn't show the hardware even though lspci shows.
> 
> # lspci -v | grep 3945
> 10:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network 
> Connection (rev 02)
> 
> Using Debian 4.0 Etch. Please help.
> 

Is there any reason you compiled from scratch when there are perfectly
good debs available? Enable contrib and non-free in your sources.list
and run

aptitude install firmware-ipw3945 ipw3945-modules-`uname -r` ipw3945d

Add ipw3945 to /etc/modules, and when you reboot your wireless should be
working. At this point you can remove contrib and non-free from your
sources.list if you wish (But you'll need to re-enable contrib each time
you update your kernel, because you need to reinstall the ipw3945
modules)

If you want to use what you compiled from source just install ipw3945d,
I believe that is what you're missing to make your wireless work.

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