Installed ipw3945 and made sure that 'alias wlan0 ipw3945' is in modprobe.conf. Still not working. Opening KNetworkManager shows only one device, the eth0 wire LAN port. Opening system-config-network shows wlan0, but it is still inactive. Trying to activate it again says the device doesn't seem to be present. Doing a 'dmesg | grep 3945' shows: ipw3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945 Network Connection driver for Linux, 1.2.1dm ipw3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation ipw3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection ipw3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver for Linux, 0.0.24kd ipw3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2007 Intel Corporation ipw3945: Detected geography ABG (11 802.11bg channels, 13 802.11a channels) ipw3945: association process canceled > Jonathan Underwood escribo: > > 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
