Akemi Yagi wrote:
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one is obsolete, and people use iwl3945.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
To make sure you have the correct firmware
yum install iwlwifi-3945-ucode.noarch
rpm -qa | grep iwl | sort
Also, you should completely get rid of the ipw3945 stuff, or it will
keep creeping in and messing things up.
/etc/rc.d/init.d/ipw3945d stop
yum remove "*ipw3945*"
It would be a good idea to reboot after this.
Troy
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