Re: problems activating wireless

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Ulrich Hiller (<hiller@mpia-hd.mpg.de>) wrote:

> I have a Toshiba satellite Notebook with Debian version 40r4. I have
> problems with the wireless card. It is a
> Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 ABG
> I have installed
> ipw3945-modules-2.6.18-6-686
> ipw3945-source 1.1.2.-7
> hostaputils
> (all from the repositories)
> 
> iwconfig gives
> [no wireless devices shown]
> 
> Obviously the card is not seen. Any idea what else I could do?
> (By the way: It did nod work either in 40r3, but it works on opensuse
> 11.0, fedora 9, mandriva 2008.1 and ubuntu 8.04.)

Install the following package:

<http://packages.debian.org/etch/firmware-ipw3945>

and reload the driver module ipw3945:

modprobe -r ipw3945
modprobe ipw3945

Also check your dmesg output.

regards
        Andreas Janssen

-- 
Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>
PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674 ICQ #17079270
Registered Linux User #267976
http://www.andreas-janssen.de/debian-tipps.html