Re: ipw3945d starts but not detecting the hardware...

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On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 07:32:15AM +0200, bejnet wrote:
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> I compiled from scratch - getting tar of ipw3945-1.2.1.tgz,
> ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2.tgz and ipw3945d-1.7.22.tgz.
>
> # ps | grep ipw
> 3961 pts/0 00:00:00 ipw3945d
>
> # lsmod | grep ipw
> ipw3945 174016 1
> ieee80211 43372 1 ipw3945
> firmware_class 9600 2 ipw3945,pcmcia
>
> for me iwconfig still doesn't show the hardware even though lspci shows.
>
> # lspci -v | grep 3945
> 10:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network
> Connection (rev 02)
>
> Using Debian 4.0 Etch. Please help.
>

Is there any reason you compiled from scratch when there are perfectly good debs available? Enable contrib and non-free in your sources.list and run

aptitude install firmware-ipw3945 ipw3945-modules-`uname -r` ipw3945d

Add ipw3945 to /etc/modules, and when you reboot your wireless should be working. At this point you can remove contrib and non-free from your sources.list if you wish (But you'll need to re-enable contrib each time you update your kernel, because you need to reinstall the ipw3945 modules)

If you want to use what you compiled from source just install ipw3945d, I believe that is what you're missing to make your wireless work.

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