On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 20:20 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: > my laptop is thinkpad t61, and wireless card is intel pro/wireless > 3945abg (according to the lspci output). i have configured my kernel > as instructed by the handbook, and after compiling and reboot, i can > see my wlan interface by iwconfig -a, and i modprobe iwl3945. but when > i try iwspy wlan0, it says 'interface doesnot support wireless > statistic collection'. and led on my laptop is off, and i cannot get > it on.
If you check your dmesg output you'll probably find an error message about the driver not being able to locate the firmware. # emerge net-wireless/iwl3945-ucode
