On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:38 AM, Dusan Bruncko <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > My problem: > up to now I am still using ipw3845 driver, no look to the fact, that this > one is obsolete, and people use iwl3945. Of course I can able to use both > drivers, > but the wireless situation is not stable now, time to time I am out from > wi-fi > connection (seems to randomly). > My present kernel is 2.6.18-164.10.1.el5. When I booting all is ok., after > some time (randomly) no. The dmesg gave nothing, in really to restart wi-fi > I must to switch-off and switch-on wi-fi hard key. I think, that the problem > can be connect with iwl3945 behaviour and maybe some crashing with ipw3945, > I do not know... > Unfortunately I cannot make rmmod for iwl... drivers if I use ipw3945, and > from another side, if I do not use ipw3945, my using iwl... is still not > stable. > I have Toshiba, Qosmio, G30-155. > > Can you look no this problem, please? > > I asked Akima Yagi already and he proposed me to make firstly: > > for BUSID in $(/sbin/lspci | awk '{ IGNORECASE=1 } /net/ { print $1 > for cmdsubst> }'); do /sbin/lspci -s $BUSID -m; /sbin/lspci -s $BUSID -n; > done > 02:00.0 "Ethernet controller" "Intel Corporation" "82573L Gigabit Ethernet > Controller" "Toshiba America Info Systems" "Unknown device 0001" > 02:00.0 0200: 8086:109a > 05:00.0 "Network controller" "Intel Corporation" "PRO/Wireless 3945ABG > [Golan] Network Connection" -r02 "Intel Corporation" "Unknown device 1041" > 05:00.0 0280: 8086:4222 (rev 02)
That information confirms that the e1000e and iwl3945 drivers should be used with the 2.6.18-164.10.1.el5 kernel (quoting Alan). This is how you find this out: go to the ELRepo FAQ page at http://elrepo.org/tiki/FAQ . FAQ Number 4 provides a detailed description on how to identify the driver through the Vendor:Device ID pair. In your case, it is 8086:109a for the ethernet controller and 8086:4222 for the wireless device. The command: grep -i 8086 /lib/modules/*/modules.alias | grep -i 109a returns (among other things) /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.10.1.el5/modules.alias:alias pci:v00008086d0000109Asv*sd*bc*sc*i* e1000e Likewise, the other pair gives you iwl3945. I realize you have [tried] both ipw3945 and iwl3945. Now that you are running the current kernel, I think you should use iwl3945. Make sure you have the correct firmware installed. Akemi
