[opensuse] wireless for Integrated Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
Hi: Just bought an hp nx 7400 laptop with Integrated Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG. I'm trying to get the wireless working with openSuse 10.2 before wiping windows off the computer I set up my wireless router to communicate with the laptop. After replacing Windows with OpenSuse 10.2, I am unable to use wireless networking on the system. I have configured the wireless with the same parameters I used when Windows was on the system. The wireless hardware is recognized - I can configure the card in YAST - both the wired card and the wireless card are recognized. There is a wireless switch on the computer. I turn it on and the wirless indicator lights up on the switch and on the indicator lamp on the front of the laptop. When I run Network Manager it does not recognize that the system has wireless. When I run the KDE wireless monitor it states that wireless has been disabled. I see that Intel has a linux driver for this hardware: http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/ I am assuming installing this driver would get the wireless networking functional. I assume that since YAST recognizes that there is a wireless networking hardware on the computer that some of the necessary driver parts have been installed. Can anyone tell me how to determine what needs to be done to get this working, apart from completely installing the driver? Thanks, Gord -- Gordon J. Holtslander Dept. of Biology gordon.holtslander@usask.ca University of Saskatchewan Tel 306 966-4433 112 Science Place Fax 306 966-4462 Saskatoon SK., CANADA homepage.usask.ca~gjh289 S7N 5E2 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Just install the ipw-firmware and ipw3945d packages from the non-oss repository You should be fine then. Ben On Thursday 10 May 2007 13:08, Gordon J. Holtslander wrote:
Hi:
Just bought an hp nx 7400 laptop with Integrated Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG.
I'm trying to get the wireless working with openSuse 10.2
before wiping windows off the computer I set up my wireless router to communicate with the laptop.
After replacing Windows with OpenSuse 10.2, I am unable to use wireless networking on the system. I have configured the wireless with the same parameters I used when Windows was on the system.
The wireless hardware is recognized - I can configure the card in YAST - both the wired card and the wireless card are recognized.
There is a wireless switch on the computer. I turn it on and the wirless indicator lights up on the switch and on the indicator lamp on the front of the laptop.
When I run Network Manager it does not recognize that the system has wireless. When I run the KDE wireless monitor it states that wireless has been disabled.
I see that Intel has a linux driver for this hardware: http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/
I am assuming installing this driver would get the wireless networking functional.
I assume that since YAST recognizes that there is a wireless networking hardware on the computer that some of the necessary driver parts have been installed.
Can anyone tell me how to determine what needs to be done to get this working, apart from completely installing the driver?
Thanks,
Gord
-- Gordon J. Holtslander Dept. of Biology gordon.holtslander@usask.ca University of Saskatchewan Tel 306 966-4433 112 Science Place Fax 306 966-4462 Saskatoon SK., CANADA homepage.usask.ca~gjh289 S7N 5E2 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hi: Worked like a charm :) Doing my email via my now functional wireless Thanks Gord On Thursday 10 May 2007 19:05, Ben Kevan wrote:
Just install the ipw-firmware and ipw3945d packages from the non-oss repository
You should be fine then.
Ben
On Thursday 10 May 2007 13:08, Gordon J. Holtslander wrote:
Hi:
Just bought an hp nx 7400 laptop with Integrated Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG.
I'm trying to get the wireless working with openSuse 10.2
before wiping windows off the computer I set up my wireless router to communicate with the laptop.
After replacing Windows with OpenSuse 10.2, I am unable to use wireless networking on the system. I have configured the wireless with the same parameters I used when Windows was on the system.
The wireless hardware is recognized - I can configure the card in YAST - both the wired card and the wireless card are recognized.
There is a wireless switch on the computer. I turn it on and the wirless indicator lights up on the switch and on the indicator lamp on the front of the laptop.
When I run Network Manager it does not recognize that the system has wireless. When I run the KDE wireless monitor it states that wireless has been disabled.
I see that Intel has a linux driver for this hardware: http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/
I am assuming installing this driver would get the wireless networking functional.
I assume that since YAST recognizes that there is a wireless networking hardware on the computer that some of the necessary driver parts have been installed.
Can anyone tell me how to determine what needs to be done to get this working, apart from completely installing the driver?
Thanks,
Gord
-- Gordon J. Holtslander Dept. of Biology gordon.holtslander@usask.ca University of Saskatchewan Tel 306 966-4433 112 Science Place Fax 306 966-4462 Saskatoon SK., CANADA homepage.usask.ca~gjh289 S7N 5E2 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
thanks, Works like a charm. Replying via my functional wireless networking Gord On Thursday 10 May 2007 19:05, Ben Kevan wrote:
Just install the ipw-firmware and ipw3945d packages from the non-oss repository
You should be fine then.
Ben
On Thursday 10 May 2007 13:08, Gordon J. Holtslander wrote:
Hi:
Just bought an hp nx 7400 laptop with Integrated Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG.
I'm trying to get the wireless working with openSuse 10.2
before wiping windows off the computer I set up my wireless router to communicate with the laptop.
After replacing Windows with OpenSuse 10.2, I am unable to use wireless networking on the system. I have configured the wireless with the same parameters I used when Windows was on the system.
The wireless hardware is recognized - I can configure the card in YAST - both the wired card and the wireless card are recognized.
There is a wireless switch on the computer. I turn it on and the wirless indicator lights up on the switch and on the indicator lamp on the front of the laptop.
When I run Network Manager it does not recognize that the system has wireless. When I run the KDE wireless monitor it states that wireless has been disabled.
I see that Intel has a linux driver for this hardware: http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/
I am assuming installing this driver would get the wireless networking functional.
I assume that since YAST recognizes that there is a wireless networking hardware on the computer that some of the necessary driver parts have been installed.
Can anyone tell me how to determine what needs to be done to get this working, apart from completely installing the driver?
Thanks,
Gord
-- Gordon J. Holtslander Dept. of Biology gordon.holtslander@usask.ca University of Saskatchewan Tel 306 966-4433 112 Science Place Fax 306 966-4462 Saskatoon SK., CANADA homepage.usask.ca~gjh289 S7N 5E2 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Am Donnerstag, 10. Mai 2007 schrieb Gordon J. Holtslander: [...]
I see that Intel has a linux driver for this hardware: http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/
I am assuming installing this driver would get the wireless networking functional.
I assume that since YAST recognizes that there is a wireless networking hardware on the computer that some of the necessary driver parts have been installed.
No, PCI devices have unique ids, which can be read out without any device specific driver. To get it working, you will need to install the wlan-kmp rpm for the kernel driver module. the ipw3945d rpm for the regulary deamon, and the ipw-firmware rpm , which is included in the non-OSS section of the distribution due to the licence of the firmware. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Le Jeudi 10 Mai 2007 22:08, Gordon J. Holtslander a écrit :
Hi:
Just bought an hp nx 7400 laptop with Integrated Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG.
I'm trying to get the wireless working with openSuse 10.2
before wiping windows off the computer I set up my wireless router to communicate with the laptop.
After replacing Windows with OpenSuse 10.2, I am unable to use wireless networking on the system. I have configured the wireless with the same parameters I used when Windows was on the system.
The wireless hardware is recognized - I can configure the card in YAST - both the wired card and the wireless card are recognized.
There is a wireless switch on the computer. I turn it on and the wirless indicator lights up on the switch and on the indicator lamp on the front of the laptop.
When I run Network Manager it does not recognize that the system has wireless. When I run the KDE wireless monitor it states that wireless has been disabled.
I see that Intel has a linux driver for this hardware: http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/
I am assuming installing this driver would get the wireless networking functional.
I assume that since YAST recognizes that there is a wireless networking hardware on the computer that some of the necessary driver parts have been installed.
Can anyone tell me how to determine what needs to be done to get this working, apart from completely installing the driver?
Thanks,
Gord
-- Gordon J. Holtslander Dept. of Biology gordon.holtslander@usask.ca University of Saskatchewan Tel 306 966-4433 112 Science Place Fax 306 966-4462 Saskatoon SK., CANADA homepage.usask.ca~gjh289 S7N 5E2
Hi, I jump into this thread because I experienced a similar problem lately. I have a Dell laptop (inspiron 6400) with an Intel Pro Wireless 3945 wlan card and Opensuse 10.2 installed. Until the last kernel update (2.6.18.0.3 i believe) the card was properly detected and knetwork manager prompt me at every boot up for the wap key of my wireless network (which is handle through kwallet). Oddly, after the kernel update, the card is not recognize onto YaST -> network -> network adpater. And the wireless card is not active. If I manualy load the driver (modprobe ipw3945) and restart the network (rcnetwork retstart), it is then detected (but does not appear in the available adapter list under YaST), knetwork manager starts and network is available. Any ideas ? Thanks in advance Matthias -- __________________________________________________________ Matthias Titeux, PhD Département de génétique des maladies cutanées et allergiques dans des modèles animaux et chez l'homme. INSERM U563 - CPTP Pavillon Lefebvre, 5ème étage CHU Purpan BP3028 31024 Toulouse cedex 03 __________________________________________________________ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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