On 6/29/07, David Kramer <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
SO I bought this brand new Dell Latitude D820. I've been trying to get a fully working Linux install on it for weeks. I tried F7, but the new suspend mechanism doesn't work on this laptop, and there's no way around it, so I installed FC6. But with FC6, I can't get the ipw3945 wireless working. I can't catch a break! There seems to be several ways: the iwl* packages, the ipw* packages, with or without Network Manager...
Your experience is just like mine. I've made both iwl and ipw drivers work. I'd say for getting it going the first time, here's what you should do. Try ipw3945. That means in /etc/modules.d/blacklist, you need to add iwl3945 to make sure it does not load. If it doesn ipw won't work. Second, turn off NetworkManager, at least temporarily. /sbin/service NetworkManager stop Third, Find out if the regulatory deamon runs. If you type this and it is running, you should see this (pasted in) # /sbin/ipw3945d ipw3945d - regulatory daemon Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. version: 1.7.22 2007-06-29 10:30:31: ERROR: ipw3945d already running. If ipw3945d is not running then you need to remove '/var/run/ipw3945d.pid' and try again. If it says there is no device, it means the module did not load. Load it manually after making sure the iwl3945 and mac80211 modules are no longer loaded. (use /sbin/lsmod to see them and /sbin/rmmod to get rid of them) /sbin/modprobe ipw3945 THen try to start the daemon again. Then type /sbin/iwlist scan to see if there are wireless routers around. If there are, run system-config-network and go through the steps of setting up a new wireless device. The critical part is the last one, where you put in the wireless server's name and if you can, set the channel. That gui has a way to activate it. It is the same thing as /sbin/ifup eth1 that you were trying. I suspect /sbin/ifup eth1 did not work for you before because the network scripts were not configured. You can study the output of that setup by reading the files it creates in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. Look at ifcg-eth1. That will be customized for the current access point. To use others, I "cp ifcg-eth ifcfg-othersite" and then edit that file. Leave the device as eth1, change the essid. after that, /sbin/ifup othersite does the trick. I have never had success with system-config-network when adding more wlreless points. Don't bother. If that works, then you can consider running NetworkManager again and launching the nm-applet to have a gui way to do this. Honestly, I've wasted many hours on this and I promise this is the best, most dependable way to get it started. I think the secret was to blacklist iwl3945. After I did that, everything worked 20000% better I sincerely hope this helps pj
So scanning the internets and this list, this is what I have now: [root@lexa ~]# uname -a Linux lexa.thekramers.net 2.6.20-1.2962.fc6 #1 SMP Tue Jun 19 19:27:14 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [root@lexa ~]# rpm -qa | egrep '(3945|ieee)' ipw3945d-1.7.22-4.at ipw3945-1.2.0-18.3.fc6 ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2962.fc6-1.2.0-18.3.fc6 ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2-4.at ieee80211-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2962.fc6-1.2.16-18.fc6 ieee80211-1.2.16-18.fc6 libieee1284-0.2.9-3.2.2 [root@lexa ~]# lsmod | egrep '(3945|ieee)' ipw3945 180000 1 ieee80211 46188 1 ipw3945 ieee80211_crypt 9216 1 ieee80211 ieee1394 294681 1 ohci1394 [root@lexa ~]# ps -e | egrep '(3945|ieee)' 3672 ? 00:00:00 ipw3945/0 3674 ? 00:00:00 ipw3945/1 3675 ? 00:00:00 ipw3945/0 3676 ? 00:00:00 ipw3945/1 3685 pts/2 00:00:00 ipw3945d [root@lexa ~]# egrep '(3945|ieee)' /etc/modprobe.conf alias eth1 ipw3945 install ipw3945 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ipw3945 ; sleep 0.5 ; /sbin/ipw3945d --timeout=2 remove ipw3945 /sbin/ipw3945d --kill ; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove ipw3945 [root@lexa ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt # for the documentation of these parameters. TYPE=Wireless DEVICE=eth1 HWADDR=00:1b:77:2c:64:c4 BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK= DHCP_HOSTNAME=lexa.thekramers.net IPADDR= DOMAIN= ONBOOT=no USERCTL=yes IPV6INIT=no PEERDNS=yes ESSID=DONTPANIC MODE=Managed RATE='36 Mb/s' CHANNEL=1 "iwconfig eth1" and "iwlist eth1 scanning" both produce good-looking results, but the WiFi light is flashing very quickly, and "ifconfig eth1 up" doesn't get an IP address, nor does "dhclient eth1", which just keeps trying. So what am I doing wrong? What does the fast blinking WiFi lite mean? What's the difference between the iwp* packages and the iwl* packages? Thanks. I hope I included enough information. I'm pretty desperate at this point. This is an expensive laptop! -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
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