Re: Switching from ipw3945 to iwl3945 driver]

On 04 Feb 2008, Peter Jordan wrote:
Anthony Campbell, 02/04/08 10:34:

On 03 Feb 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 09:03:03 +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote:
[...]

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The ipw3945 driver requires closed-source components and has been
deprecated by Intel, the only party that has access to the full source
code and hardware specifications. The kernel developers, on the other
hand, generally don't care very much about breaking proprietary drivers
with newer versions of the kernel, especially if there is an alternative
available in the normal kernel tree.

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Unfortunately there does not seem to be an alternative for me. I had
another go at it last night. I set up things according to the advice on
the above site. Everything looked correct according to "ip a" and
"/etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules", but nothing happened: the
indicator light never flickered to show the netwerk card was trying to
connect. This is what has always happened previously when I've tried to
use iwl3945. And I get this message:

wlan0: unknown hardware address type 801.

I googled for this and found some people on Ubuntu getting the same
thing but no obvious clue to what is wrong.

Anthony


The led function will be implemented later.
Make sure, dhcp3-client is installed. That solved all my problems with
iwl3945.

PJ

I already have dhcp3-client. I tried again, and no longer get the
"unknown hardware address type 801" error, which is progress of a sort,
I suppose. According to iwconfig and syslog the card has been detected
and appears to be working but it is not connecting. And I have "wlan0:
no wireless extensions."

Googling produces plenty of people with fairly similar problems but no
obvious solutions.

Anthony

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