[Re: Switching from ipw3945 to iwl3945 driver] - solved?

2008-02-13 Thread Kamil Jońca
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 09:13:34PM +0100, Kamil Jońca wrote: [...] It looks like that iwl3945 cannot assocciate when ssid broadcast is off (on Access point) and (as a consequence) ap_scan in wpa_supplicant.conf on client station is setting to 2 (meaning try all network blocks in order). After

Re: Switching from ipw3945 to iwl3945 driver]

2008-02-11 Thread Kamil Jońca
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

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2008-02-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 09 Feb 2008, Peter Jordan wrote: 1) eth3 and wlan0 differ 2) add auto eth3 or whatever to /etc/network/interfaces 3) you don't use wpasupplicant? pj 1. I did have auto eth3 in the file but probably I screwed something up in my repeated attempts to get iwl3945 working. Anyway,

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2008-02-08 Thread Peter Jordan
Anthony Campbell, 02/08/08 14:32: On 07 Feb 2008, Peter Jordan wrote: wouldn't it be better if you posted your /etc/network/interfaces ? Here it is: == # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For

Re: Switching from ipw3945 to iwl3945 driver]

2008-02-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 07 Feb 2008, Peter Jordan wrote: wouldn't it be better if you posted your /etc/network/interfaces ? Here it is: == # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). #

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2008-02-07 Thread Peter Jordan
Anthony Campbell, 02/07/08 17:11: I think that means that the card is not on. Look in /sys/class/mumblemumblemumble/iwl3945/device/rf_kill. It should be 0 for the card to be on, 1 for the card to be off, by way of the radio control button/switch on your machine. A I couldn;t find that

Re: Switching from ipw3945 to iwl3945 driver]

2008-02-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
I think that means that the card is not on. Look in /sys/class/mumblemumblemumble/iwl3945/device/rf_kill. It should be 0 for the card to be on, 1 for the card to be off, by way of the radio control button/switch on your machine. A I couldn;t find that entry but I'll have another look.

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2008-02-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:37:00PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 04 Feb 2008, Peter Jordan wrote: Anthony Campbell, 02/04/08 10:34: On 03 Feb 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 09:03:03 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: [...] [...] The ipw3945 driver

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2008-02-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 03 Feb 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 09:03:03 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 02 Feb 2008, Jurij Smakov wrote: [...] The 2.6.24 kernel has recently hit unstable, and it contains a new shiny iwl3945 driver which should replace the old ipw3945 one. The

Re: Switching from ipw3945 to iwl3945 driver]

2008-02-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Feb 2008, Peter Jordan wrote: Anthony Campbell, 02/04/08 10:34: On 03 Feb 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 09:03:03 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: [...] [...] The ipw3945 driver requires closed-source components and has been deprecated by Intel, the only

Re: Switching from ipw3945 to iwl3945 driver]

2008-02-04 Thread Peter Jordan
Anthony Campbell, 02/04/08 10:34: On 03 Feb 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 09:03:03 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: [...] [...] The ipw3945 driver requires closed-source components and has been deprecated by Intel, the only party that has access to the full source

Re: Switching from ipw3945 to iwl3945 driver]

2008-02-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Feb 2008, Jurij Smakov wrote: Hi, If you do not own any hardware with Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG wifi cards, you can stop reading now. The 2.6.24 kernel has recently hit unstable, and it contains a new shiny iwl3945 driver which should replace the old ipw3945 one. The good news

Re: Switching from ipw3945 to iwl3945 driver]

2008-02-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 09:03:03 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 02 Feb 2008, Jurij Smakov wrote: [...] The 2.6.24 kernel has recently hit unstable, and it contains a new shiny iwl3945 driver which should replace the old ipw3945 one. The good news is that you will no longer need to

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2008-02-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 03:56:43AM +0100, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: * Once you've brought up wpa_supplicant on your wireless interface, the driver does not know how to go back. If you kill wpa_supplicant (like when you suspend and go somewhere else and want to connect to another WEP

Switching from ipw3945 to iwl3945 driver]

2008-02-02 Thread Jurij Smakov
Hi, If you do not own any hardware with Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG wifi cards, you can stop reading now. The 2.6.24 kernel has recently hit unstable, and it contains a new shiny iwl3945 driver which should replace the old ipw3945 one. The good news is that you will no longer need to run the

Re: Switching from ipw3945 to iwl3945 driver]

2008-02-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 10:13:56PM +, Jurij Smakov wrote: Hi, If you do not own any hardware with Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG wifi cards, you can stop reading now. The 2.6.24 kernel has recently hit unstable, and it contains a new shiny iwl3945 driver which should replace the old

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2008-02-02 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Andrew Sackville-West: On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 10:13:56PM +, Jurij Smakov wrote: Hi, I've only tested this procedure myself, so feel free to contribute additional information to the wiki page, and reply to this thread if you encounter any problems (cc me in this case, as I'm