Unfortunately I can't get it working on my new shiny Thipad R61i laptop. I think I do ewerything according to http://wiki.debian.org/iwlwifi (except that I haven't ip command so use ifconfig).
after inserting module I got: iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver for Linux, 1.1.17ks iwl3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2007 Intel Corporation ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 22 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:03:00.0 to 64 iwl3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection iwl3945: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 23 802.11a channels phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-3945-rs /etc/network/interfaces (part) ==================== iface wlan0 inet dhcp wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf wpa-driver wext wpa-verbosity 1 =================== after ifup wlan0 i got: wpa_supplicant: wpa-driver wext wpa_supplicant: /sbin/wpa_supplicant -B -P /var/run/wpa_supplicant.wlan0.pid -i wlan0 -D wext -q -f /var/log/wpa_supplicant.wlan0.log -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf Starting /sbin/wpa_supplicant... ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported WEXT auth param 5 value 0x1 - wpa_supplicant: creating sendsigs omission pidfile: /lib/init/rw/sendsigs.omit.d/wpasupplicant.wpa_supplicant.wlan0.pid wpa_supplicant: ctrl_interface socket located at /var/run/wpa_supplicant/wlan0 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.0 Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801 wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801 Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:1c:bf:82:44:b9 Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:1c:bf:82:44:b9 Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13 KJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]