wireles network issue

Qui, 2007-08-09 às 12:46 -0500, Marcio Alejandro Regalado M. escreveu:
> Hello everybody, I'm new to this list and I'm looking on a way to
> configure the wireles card that comes with my laptop, below I include
> some things that can be of help to resolv this issue
>
> Laptop: HP Pavilion dv6403cl
> W-card: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
> System: Debian 4.0 r0 "Etch"
> Kernel: 2.6.18
>
> Downloaded and installed the following packages
>
> linux-image-2.6-686
> ipw3945-modules-2.6.18-4-486
> ipw3945-modules-2.6.18-4-686
> ipw3945-modules-2.6-686
>
> If there's anithing else you guys need to know please let me know
> Thanks in Advance for your help
>
>
You need to insert te firmware of your wireless card in the
directory /lib/firmware the do at the terminal the following command (i
was done this with Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network
Connection) maybe can work with you:
su -c "modprobe ipw3945"

You can get more information here:
http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/ the project of the firmware for this
card ;)

Here is the link for the firmware:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ipw3945/ipw3945-1.2.2.tgz?download

Any problems with the installation just read the install file located
here:
http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/INSTALL

Sincerely
José Oleiro

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Hi Marcio,

This is a question that's been coming up a lot recently on irc in #debian.
This is from the scripted response that we use:

0. add contrib and non-free entries in your sources.list and aptitude update

1. aptitude install ipw3945-modules-2.6-686 firmware-ipw3945 ipw3945d

2. modprobe ipw3945 (this will also start the daemon. you should modprobe -r
ipw3945 to remove the module and stop the daemon)

3. ipw3945d might complain about the kill switch in /var/log/messages. This is
either a keystroke (like Fn+F2) or a physical switch that you need to toggle
to turn the radio on. When the kill switch is on, the radio is off (odd way
of expressing things, isn't it?) and your network card won't work.

4. you can then configure your network interface in any way you want. For
ipw3945, I've had good luck recently with NetworkManager (package
network-manager and either network-manager-kde or network-manager-gnome) as
it makes it much easier to set up wep, wpa etc rather than manually
configuring it through /etc/network/interfaces or wpa_supplicant or whatever
the current config method is for that this week.

Perhaps this should find its way to somewhere google finds easily.... perhaps
this posting will be that place :)

cheers
Stuart

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Stuart Prescott www.nanoNANOnano.net

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Le jeudi 9 août 2007 19:46, Marcio Alejandro Regalado M. a écrit :
> Hello everybody, I'm new to this list and I'm looking on a way to
> configure the wireles card that comes with my laptop, below I include
> some things that can be of help to resolv this issue
>
> Laptop: HP Pavilion dv6403cl
> W-card: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
> System: Debian 4.0 r0 "Etch"
> Kernel: 2.6.18
>
> Downloaded and installed the following packages
>
> linux-image-2.6-686
> ipw3945-modules-2.6.18-4-486
> ipw3945-modules-2.6.18-4-686
> ipw3945-modules-2.6-686
>
> If there's anithing else you guys need to know please let me know
> Thanks in Advance for your help
>
>
> --