iwl3945 on a Dell Inspiron 6400

Agustin Barto abarto at gmail.com
Sat Jun 2 19:09:41 UTC 2007


On 6/2/07, Agustin Barto <abarto at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/2/07, Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 02/06/07, Agustin Barto <abarto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 6/2/07, Brian Millett <bmillett at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Agustin Barto escribío:
> > > > > I can't get the wireless to work on my Dell Inspiron 6400 with F7. It
> > > > > worked just fine on F6 with the ipw3945 module (and regulatory
> > > > > daemon). Also, the killswitch doesn't work and dellWirelessCtl doesn't
> > > > > seem to be working either.
> > > >
> > > > Was this a clean install?  Or an update?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Clean install.
> >
> > Are you using networkmanager? I too have been fighting with this this
> > afternoon. Two things i did which seemed to kick it into life  in
> > system-config-network were firstly to probe for the MAC address - I
> > don't know why, but s-c-n always gets the MAC address wrong until you
> > tell it to probe it (which plays havoc when you have mac address
> > access limiting on your AP), and also I set the wireless device to be
> > in "Auto" mode rather than "Master". Again, no idea why s-c-n
> > defaulted to Master.
>
> I'm not using NetworkManager (yet). Changed it to managed and used my
> wifi network configuration. Didn't work either.
>

ipw3945 (I built the module and the regulatory daemon from source)
doesn't work either.




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