Re: New to Fedora, struggling with wireless

Cecilia Lunardini wrote:
I copy it at the end of this message. In it, I see a
relevant piece of information: "Intel Corporation
PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection"

There's the rub. The driver for the 3945 isn't in the kernel yet.
There are a few ways to go about getting it installed. I've been
using the packages from ATrpms for a while now and I'll try to briefly
describe how to install the needed pieces. You mentioned that you had
someone do the install for you, perhaps you could ply them with
chocolate, liquor, or some combination thereof to help out. :)

0) Open a terminal and become root (su - or sudo -i)

1) Setup the ATrpms repo (excerpted from atrpms.net/install.html)
Put the following text into /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo:

[atrpms]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable
gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0

2) Install the driver kernel module and firmware

yum --enablerepo atrpms install ipw3945

This should install the ipw3945 package and several dependencies,
ieee80211-kmdl, ipw3945-kmdl, ipw3945-ucode, and ipw3945d.

3) Setup the regulatory daemon
Save http://svn.rpmforge.net/svn/trunk/rpms/ipw3945d/ipw3945d.init
as /etc/init.d/ipw3945 and set its ownership and permissions
properly. (watch for line wrapping in your mail program with the
following commands.)

wget -O /etc/init.d/ipw3945 http://svn.rpmforge.net/svn/trunk/rpms/ipw3945d/ipw3945d.init
chown root. /etc/init.d/ipw3945
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/ipw3945

Setup the service so it will start and stop at the proper times

chkconfig --add ipw3945

4) Reboot to test that the driver gets loaded and the regulatory
daemon is started.

I'm using this card with FC6 and NetworkManager and it works quite
well for me. Hopefully once you get over this initial hurdle, you'll
enjoy playing with and using Fedora too.

Hope this helps and hope I've not made any typos or missed important
steps...

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