Re: suse heartbreak: ipw3945

felmon davis wrote:

hey,

well, 'heartbreak' is a bit melodramatic but
I have spent long hrs trying to get wireless working
on a new hp pavillion dv2000. I was even at the point
of recompiling the kernel which kept crashing in errors
maybe the bitter fruit of previous abortive attempts to
update the ieee80211 subsystem.

I popped in a kubuntu live cd just for kicks and wouldn't
you know: it found and configured wireless in an instant!

I had gotten the laptop in the false belief wifi wouldn't
be a problem but it seems the chipset and SuSE's drivers
are not yet well acquainted.

I am wondering if anyone has a good reliable route to
getting the ipw3945 driver to speak to hp's intel wireless
on a dual core cpu setup?

I have tried the drivers off the add-on cd (Opensuse 10.2)
and I have downloaded drivers from the Intel site. the
closest I have come to success is to get it acknowledged
there is an eth1 interface but the network never comes up.
usually I just get 'no wireless extensions'. I am aware of
the rf_kill switch, that doesn't seem to be the problem.

I am installing kubuntu as we speak but I would like to
revert to Opensuse if I can. I have done a lot of fooling
around, reading forums and instructions, compiling things, etc.
so it would be difficult to recount it all. it is clear
some individuals are getting it to work. I am sure I would
be one of them with further hacking but I am hoping someone
has a nice methodical path.

Felmon

Better wireless support (HP DV8000 laptop) was one of the reasons I switched
over to Kubuntu, after many happy years of (Open)Suse. It also appeared to
support my cardreader "out of the box" and it didn't give me the problems
with ACPI which I had in OpenSuse.

Just my small amount of money.

Marc

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