Jonathan Underwood escribío: > On 17/06/07, Joe Jerome <jjerome1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Help! We are trying to activate wlan0 on my son's laptop without >> success. We installed F7 from the KDE LiveCD. Opening the Network >> Device Control shows wlan0 inactive. When trying to activate it, we >> get: >> >> Cannot activate network device wlan0! >> >> Device wlan0 does not seem to be present, >> delaying installation. >> >> Doing a 'dmesg | grep iwl3945' gives: >> >> iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver >> for Linux, 0.0.21kd > [snip] >> I have not tried to configure or use wireless hardware before. >> Not sure what else to try or check. Suggestions? > > > Couple of things jump out at me - on a laptop you'd be better off > using the NetworkManager functionality rather than manually enabling > and disabling the device - you should be able to select your desired > wireless AP from the applet in the taskbar. > > Also, iwl3945 is a buggy piece of crap currently, I have no idea why > it's even included in the F7 kernel - really, even if you had it > working it would crap out on you every 10 mins or so. > > I'd advise installing the ipw3945 driver from freshrpms > (dkms-ipw3945). iwl3945 is a development driver, whereas ipw3945 is > the previous incarnation of the driver with a binary only daemon which > meant it couldn't be packaged in Fedora. > You also will want to add to /etc/modprobe.conf depending on the driver you will use: alias wlan0 ipw3945 or alias wlan0 iwl3945 -- Brian Millett - [ Garibaldi, "The Gathering"] "Commander, this little breach of security isn't going to affect my Christmas bonus, is it?"
