Hi, Does anyone have some experience in dealing with "statistics errors" deriving from the "Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection"?
Secondly, I do not know from where ipw3945 is coming from (in dmesg), since I disabled the ipw3945d daemon. Could this be a problem? I describe the scenario below. I have an hp laptop running SL 5.0 [...@hpsl5 ~]$ uname -a Linux hpsl5 2.6.18-128.1.1.el5xen #1 SMP Tue Feb 10 12:27:46 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux which has the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection linked to the eth1 device, that I had setup using the ipw3945d daemon. (ipw3945d does not permit wpa-psk but in the interim I use WEP protocol) Things started happening when I installed the gspcav1-*.rpm from the atrpms repository and it installed the package ieee80211-kmdl-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5xen*, amongst others, for dependency. I also had to install some iwl*3945* package which introduced some clashes. I lost network connection, until, after trial and error, I installed the corresponding package, iwlwifi-3945.ucode, from sl-security and disabled the ipw3945 daemon from network services. (I then regained wireless connectivity, but do not know yet if there are other problems.) However, when I click on the icon for the eth1 (wireless) connection properties, I get the error message: " Please contact your system administrator to resolve the following problem: Could not parse interface statistics from ' eth1'. prx_idx = 1; ptx_idx = 9; brx_idx = 0; btx_idx = 8;" Unfortunately, I am my own systems administrator, and do not know how to go about this. From past mail, I visited the sites http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/?p=iwlwifi&n=howto-iwlwifi http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/tar.php?p=iwlwifi&a=iwlwifi-1.2.25.tgz&f=INSTALL but could not still figure things out! The introduce devices such as wlan0 which are not found un my machine. Looking at dmesg, some of the relevant messages seem to be (bits snipped out): [...@hpsl5 ~]$ dmesg | tail -400 | less <..snip..> Bluetooth: HCI USB driver ver 2.9 usbcore: registered new driver hci_usb ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.5.10-k2-NAPI e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2005 Intel Corporation ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:08:08.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 21 e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xd0006000, irq 21, MAC addr 00:16:D4:3A:20:40 ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, 1.2.18 ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <[email protected]> ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encodeext ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encodeext ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encode ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encode ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encode ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encode ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_txb_free ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_txb_free ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encodeext ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encodeext ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_freq_to_channel ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_freq_to_channel ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_set_geo ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_set_geo ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_rx ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_get_channel ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_channel ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_channel_to_index ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_channel_to_index ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_get_geo ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_geo ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol free_ieee80211 ipw3945: Unknown symbol free_ieee80211 ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_tx_frame ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_tx_frame ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_is_valid_channel ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_is_valid_channel ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_get_channel_flags ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_channel_flags ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol alloc_ieee80211 ipw3945: Unknown symbol alloc_ieee80211 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.3[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver, 0.12 sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman sdhci: SDHCI controller found at 0000:08:06.3 [104c:803c] (rev 0) ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:08:06.3[D] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 21 mmc0: SDHCI at 0xd0007800 irq 21 PIO iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver for Linux, 1 .2.26ks iwl3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2008 Intel Corporation ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:00.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:06:00.0 to 64 iwl3945: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 3945ABG iwl3945: Tunable channels: 11 802.11bg, 13 802.11a channels phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-3945-rs' intel_rng: FWH not detected input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input3 <..snip..> william.
