issues with iwl3945 and NetworkManager

[Ben Little]

I have a Dell D830 latitude laptop with an Intel Chipset (3945a/b/g wireless
card)

iwl3945 and mac80211 do not seem to function properly for me, I have since
gotten wireless working by using ipw3945 and wifi-radar, so there is a
definite workaround.  Here is relevant information, I am able to reinstall
iwl3945 if required to assist in recreating this issue for anyone that
needs:

ipw3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945 Network Connection driver for Linux,
1.2.1dm
ipw3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
ipw3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
ipw3945: Detected geography ABG (11 802.11bg channels, 13 802.11a channels)

Sep 21 18:34:02 id10t kernel: iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG
Network Connection driver for Linux, 0.1.8kd
Sep 21 18:34:02 id10t kernel: iwl3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2007 Intel
Corporation
Sep 21 18:34:02 id10t kernel: iwl3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
Network Connection
Sep 21 18:34:02 id10t kernel: iwl3945: Tunable channels: 11 802.11bg, 13
802.11a channels
Sep 21 20:57:45 id10t kernel: iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG
Network Connection driver for Linux, 0.1.8kd
Sep 21 20:57:45 id10t kernel: iwl3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2007 Intel
Corporation
Sep 21 20:57:45 id10t kernel: iwl3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
Network Connection
Sep 21 20:57:45 id10t kernel: iwl3945: Tunable channels: 11 802.11bg, 13
802.11a channels
Sep 21 23:28:56 id10t kernel: iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG
Network Connection driver for Linux, 0.1.15kds
Sep 21 23:28:56 id10t kernel: iwl3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2007 Intel
Corporation
Sep 21 23:28:56 id10t kernel: iwl3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
Network Connection
Sep 21 23:28:56 id10t kernel: iwl3945: Tunable channels: 11 802.11bg, 13
802.11a channels
Sep 21 23:35:49 id10t NetworkManager: <info>  wlan0: Device is
fully-supported using driver 'iwl3945'.


(^^ this was prior to blacklisting iwl3945 and mac80211)

Looks like everything is functional and should work normally. however I was
unable to obtain a DHCP address, again with no errors reported.  I have
heard reports of iwl3945 working normally for others so I am kind of
hesitant to spam you all with this information.

more info about current modules loaded:

lsmod | grep iwl (produces no output)
 lsmod | grep ipw
ipw3945               197840  0
ieee80211              37777  1 ipw3945



what I have observed is networkmanager is able to view networks however when
attempting to connect, I am unable to receive an IP address, and if the
network has wep enabled I am prompted for the network key at which point
network manager goes directly back to "waiting for network key status" then
after a few seconds I am again prompted for the wep key.

like I said I have a workaround currently, but I'm interested in making sure
this works "out of the box" for other users.

thanks!
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