solarian Posted January 24, 2007 Report Share Posted January 24, 2007 (edited) hi, I have an Acer 5610 laptop with FC6 I installed the drivers from ATrpms and the network manager found my wlan card, but when trying to connect to activate the card/network config, I get this error Determining IP information for eth1... failed; no link present. Check cable? Is it a problem with my wifi network or the card? Please help, just two days with this laptop and I haven't tried to connect anything else to my wifi network, because I have nothing else to connect.... [moved from Laptops by spinynorman] Edited January 26, 2007 by solarian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted January 25, 2007 Report Share Posted January 25, 2007 I spent weeks trying to get mine to work with Mandy, I have a tosh lappy with the same card. This is what I did. I googled for ipw3945 and found the sourceforge website. Downloaded the single file that compiles the module into the kernel. Then, I installed Mandy's packages: ipw3945-ucode-1.13-2mdv2007.0 ipw3945d-1.7.22-1mdv2007.0 of course, I know your running FC6. So, find these two atrpm packages and install them. Then compile the latest stable module from the sourceforge website, version 1.2.0 I think. That should do the trick I hope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted January 26, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 (edited) I gave up FC6 on my laptop after trying out Mandriva ONE 2007, it recognized my card right away and connecting to my wifi was a breeze, even with my WPA2 security. So I'm running Mandriva again, at least on one of my computers. :) That's sort of "back to the roots" to me. Edited January 26, 2007 by solarian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted January 26, 2007 Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 I did try FC6 on my laptop, in fact I tried a few distros, but finally went with Mandriva on it, purely for familiarity and the fact I couldn't get sound or wireless working on either of the distros anyway. And thought I would wait for the later module to arrive, so I could finally get it working, which I did last week :P Glad you got a solution though and it worked out of the box for you. Wasn't quite the same for me, as the standard Mandy kernels didn't work with my Core 2 Duo. Therefore, I couldn't use dkms to get the ipw3945 packages, and therefore had to compile my own kernel to get the Core 2 Duo supported and then compile the modules, but at least use some Mandy ipw packages. So for you, much much easier than me ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted January 26, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 I see. :) My Asp5610 version has Intel centrino processor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted January 27, 2007 Report Share Posted January 27, 2007 well done. 3945 is one of the more disgusting drivers going around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted January 30, 2007 Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 Does anyone know if the reverse engineered 3945 bsd drivers is ported to Linux? That would make my laptop fully open source/free software operated..! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted February 3, 2007 Report Share Posted February 3, 2007 Sorry I didn't see this sooner, I use FC6/ipw3945 from freshrpms the dkms packages, works good for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 5, 2007 Report Share Posted February 5, 2007 I might have to try that soon on my lappy then and see how FC6 goes. I had big problems before, and couldn't find any freshrpm packages or from the other repository that I've forgotten right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted February 5, 2007 Report Share Posted February 5, 2007 Once you get freshrpms repo installed, just: yum install *\ipw3945\* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted February 6, 2007 Report Share Posted February 6, 2007 (edited) Does anyone know if the reverse engineered 3945 bsd drivers is ported to Linux? That would make my laptop fully open source/free software operated..! havn't really got a hope unfortunately. There's so many great wireless drivers in *bsd that I wish would be ported, but none ever have been. I wish linux' wireless was implemented at least half as well as bsd. but then again... there's a lot of things that are implemented far better in bsd. James Edited February 6, 2007 by iphitus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arvin Juan Posted April 24, 2007 Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 I am new to linux and I have no idea how to make my wireless connection work. I have an Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG. Could someone please help me make my device work? Please send me a step-by-step procedure of how I can configure my device. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted April 24, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 What distribution are you using? If it's Mandriva, have you configured urpmi? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arvin Juan Posted April 24, 2007 Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 Yes, it is Mandriva. How do I configure the urpmi? Please provide me a step-by-step procedure on doing that. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted April 24, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 Instructions are here: http://www.mandrivausers.org/easyurpmi/index.php Then run MCC (Settings->Configure your computer) and in the Software Installer search for ipw3945, install everything with ipw3945. Those are the drivers for the wireless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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