Am Wednesday 22 August 2007 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: > At Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:04:52 -0400 Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I'm having a heck of a time trying to get wireless going on my laptop. > > I've tried so many things, I'm a bit dizzy and don't know where I've > > gone right or wrong. > > > > First things first. lspci shows my wireless hardware as: > > > > 0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG > > Network Connection (rev 02) > > > > I've tried to follow this guide: > > > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_ipw3945 > > > > When I get to the point where it tells me to do modprobe ipw3945, I get > > a message (and since I added ipw3945d to the default runlevel, I also > > get this same message on boot) about not being able to find: > > > > chown '/sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw3945/00*/cmd' no such file or directory > > > > lsmod does not list the driver even though I emerged it and added it to > > the /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 file > > > > I tried doing a google on the above error message and one of the hits > > indicated that the person had the same problem, but at least had the > > ipw3945 directory in /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ I don't even have that. > > > > I have no idea what is going on here, so any help would be appreciated. > > And since I'm not really strong in networking, please lead me by the > > nose. > > I have the same hardware and had the same problem. I have used the > following kludge to "fix" it. > > Add ipw3945 to /etc/modules.autoload/kernel-2.6 > and add ipw3945d to the boot runlevel > > The first attempt autoload ipd3945 (from modules.autoload) will cause > an error, but the second load (from the deamon in the boot runlevel) > succeeds. When I pull the "erroneous" line from modules.autoload, the > load from the boot runlevel fails. (It seems to need two tries :-) ). > > I have been told that the new (unstable) baselayout fixes this but I > can't confirm since I run stable.
I can confirm that problem on my FSC Lifebook E8210. A friend used ipw3945 on his Samsung laptop without any probs. By now I changed from ipw3945 to iwl3945 driver and have no initialisation errors anymore. -- Michael Gisbers http://www.lugor.de
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