Todd Zullinger wrote: >I have an IPW3945 that's working fairly well for me on FC4. I can >help out to some extent, but there may well be some things that are a >little different in FC5 which I have yet to install and test. This is >also the first wireless card I've had to play around with. So take >all this with a small grain of salt. >> I prepared an ifcfg-eth1 file in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts >> directory. >Did you create it by hand or use some tool to make it? What's that >look like? I only ask to see if it's got anything funky in it that >might cause you problems. Thanks for your comments - I will respond to each below. This (ifcfg-eth1) is a file which I have adapted from use with other machines - only changing the MAC address and has worked well with ipw2200 on a different laptop so I can't imagine this is the problem. >You said that it works fine when you use the load script from the >build directory. Just to be sure, is the module properly installed in >/lib/modules/...? As far as I know it is - it is in /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ and appears alongside ipw2200 and ipw2100 .ko files from the stock system. >> install ipw3945 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ipw3945 ; \ >> sleep 0.5 ; /sbin/ipw3945d --quiet >> >> remove ipw3945 /sbin/ipw3945d --kill ; \ >> /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove ipw3945 >That looks good. It's what I have anyway, though I have mine all on >one line (in case it matters, and if you aren't just breaking it up >for the email). And I'm using my wireless right now, so it definitely >can be made to work. I did remove the \ chars as I heard there was a problem with the parsing of modprobe in fc5 but it made no difference. Also in the first line I added /sbin/modprobe -q eth0; as this is a work around for some machines where ipw2200 does not work - but this also made no difference. >> If I try ifup eth1 after booting the terminal message is: "ipw3945 >> device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialisation" >I get that sometimes too, but it doesn't prevent it from working. I >believe this happens when the regulatory daemon needs to be started >up. Precisely - and the network won't run unless ipw3945d is running >> I am using the 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp kernel - >2.6.15-1.1833_FC4smp here, so we're talking fairly similar kernels at >least. >> Does anyone know how to get this to work so that it knows about the >> wireless interface after bootup ? >A minor complication in my setup is that I have tried to make things >work as smoothly as possible to switch between the wired and wireless >connections on my home network. So I've added an init script and >installed ifplugd to do link detection on the wired interface. At >boot time, if I'm plugged in, the wired interface gets brought up and >if it isn't, the wireless interface gets started. In the init script >I do this just before calling ifup eth1 to make sure that the >regulatory daemon is running: >if ! ps -C ipw3945d> /dev/null 2>&1; then > /sbin/ipw3945d --quiet> /dev/null 2>&1 >fi That is useful ! >It didn't want to start up right the first time after boot. I'm >pretty sure I read on the ipw3945 list or website that some other >folks had this problem too. I haven't tried it, but I'm wondering if >switching /sbin/ipw3945d --quiet and /sbin/modprobe in the >modprobe.conf entry would make this work better. The module needs the >daemon to start, and calling it as it is shown in the INSTALL doc >seems backwards to me. I will try that - but another useful snippet is that once booted up if I do modprobe -r ipw3945 This does shut down the daemon and then doing modprobe ipw3945 Does start it up properly ! So it works after the daemon has been shut down from the modprobe command but not during boot ! >Anyway, hope this helps you along a little. I'll be happy to try and >figure out what's different between my setup and yours if you need >more help getting things up and running. I will try your suggestion and see if that works ! Mike - -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xD654075A | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp -- mike cohler
