David Kramer escribío: > 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, What BIOS rev do you have? On mine (d820), It suspends after I upgraded it to A5. For F7 to suspend, see http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/ and do not use compiz/beryl. > 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... > > 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! > It all looks OK, what security on the wireless station? I also am using NetworkManager which is great for me. There are items that NetworkManager-dispatch does that makes it worth wile. I added the following init.d script to start ipw3945d at the correct time BEFORE the NetworkManager starts. If the network comes up and the ipw3945d is not started, then the wireless is not activated. #!/bin/sh # # ipw3945d: ipw3945 daemon # # chkconfig: - 89 12 # description: This is a daemon for starting the ipw3945 service # # processname: ipw3945d # pidfile: /var/run/ipw3945d.pid # prefix=/sbin exec_prefix=/sbin sbindir=/sbin IPW3945D_BIN=${sbindir}/ipw3945d # Sanity checks. [ -x $IPW3945D_BIN ] || exit 1 # Source function library. . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions # so we can rearrange this easily processname=ipw3945d servicename=ipw3945d pidfile=/var/run/ipw3945d.pid RETVAL=0 start() { echo -n $"Starting ipw3945 daemon: " daemon --check $servicename $processname --quiet --pid-file=$pidfile RETVAL=$? echo [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/$servicename } stop() { echo -n $"Stopping ipw3945 daemon: " killproc -p $pidfile $servicename RETVAL=$? echo if [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ]; then rm -f /var/lock/subsys/$servicename rm -f $pidfile fi } # See how we were called. case "$1" in start) start ;; stop) stop ;; status) status -p $pidfile $processname RETVAL=$? ;; restart) stop start ;; condrestart) if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/$servicename ]; then stop start fi ;; *) echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|condrestart}" ;; esac exit $RETVAL -- Brian Millett - [ Londo, "The Gathering"] "Nice shark...pretty shark..."
