I was suspecting it to be a firmware issue, but anyway it doesn't work for me on a clean install of SL 6.2 nor 6.3 - not even on a live system. And as I wrote, I bought another card with the same chipset either.
One thing that comes to mind is that my notebook that I had that in is getting pretty old (>5 y) and the processor in it gets the whole machine frozen sometimes - I think it easily might be some hardware issue, but not sure at all because I saw other bug reports too. Wonder why my Atheros works without a glitch for half a year now if so. On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:30:12 -0500 Robert Blair <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Very odd. My laptop has this card and works just fine under sl6.3 > x86_64. I'm using it as I type now. Could this be a firmware issue? > I seem to recall loading firmware a long time ago for this card (the > timestamp on the file is Apr 23 2009 and the details below), but I > did a clean install on this system a few months ago. > iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 3945ABG > iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode > iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: loaded firmware version 15.32.2.9 > > > On 03/26/2013 02:14 PM, Andras Horvath wrote: > > I cannot recommend what would be the best, but instead I'd like to > > point out which one's not a good buy. > > > > From one point of update since SL 6.2 I was continuously having > > problems with my Intel 3945 ABG wifi card. Serious kernel panics and > > hangings happened after a couple of minutes uptime. I read about > > similar problems on the net from CentOS systems too around the same > > time of my update. > > > > This card was working just fine before on SL, and even after on > > different Linux systems - later I even bought another card > > with the same chipset - but SL still produced the errors. So I > > replaced my card with one from Atheros and problems are gone. > > > > Andras > > > > > > On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:22:14 -0700 > > Joseph Areeda <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> I tried to use the Broadcom WiFi that came with the motherboard > >> (don't have the model number right now). > >> > >> It seemed to not be recognized although Windows sees it fine in > >> another system. > >> > >> Would someone recommend a good USB Wifi that has current drivers > >> for SL6.3? Or point me to a list of drivers available in the > >> release repositories? > >> > >> It's a long story but we need both wired and wireless on this > >> system and easier to buy a compatible interface rather than do > >> much work to find non-standard drivers. > >> > >> Thank you, > >> > >> Joe > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRUfdEAAoJEPQM1KNWz8Qabj4H/3ozxohpfqoDpHfaE+Zpofho > Wseg0bH0CGbKDTuuTCzkAPDHqfBES3gQ2x8saF+AqVLA6nZgN1O1gxXbzgnPBRxq > 5ZB9L+NLiah5avykDGu0gE0CJ1zQCEAFA1oqyM+Mdo+I/R4UoSb/x5W0+r9JFhyh > vpoG3F6Lea3Zis7o+T1xCIgRjKUiONBd0xqAJWDiYKdncZNAi/SzatRHu489p7pD > 2r6AoM2X8Fhp97eDCbiTKO0BpYTcoBjBu3KoTDVM+TLprQxZYCJAvktoE1PoS2KO > jI5nkjafinIPSB9fqqmNPQb9v1sjNyHSi7X0QuKvJL0nx9cH7zrnE2AlCiYnaBM= > =J+6V > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
