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Intel Pro 3945abg and Fedora 7
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 1:52 am
by moosport
I trying to get the wireless connection to work. After installing a few rpms, I get the following error when trying to install ipw3945-1.2.0-18.4.fc7.x86_64.rpm
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rpm -i ipw3945-1.2.0-18.4.fc7.x86_64.rpm
warning: ipw3945-1.2.0-18.4.fc7.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 66534c2b
error: Failed dependencies:
ipw3945-kmdl-1.2.0-18.4.fc7 is needed by ipw3945-1.2.0-18.4.fc7.x86_64
I could not find the required ipw3945-kmdl-1.2.0-18.4.fc7 at all.
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 6:57 am
by carbon_unit
You don't say which distro you are using but from the looks of it you must be running FC7 64 bit. I don't now for sure about FC7 but in general most 64 bit distros have more hardware problems than 32 bit distros. Try backing down to FC7 32 bit and see if that helps. At this point there is not much advantage to running 64 bit.
I can tell you that I am running Linux Mint 32 bit which is Ubuntu based and it installed fine and my 3945 worked right out of the box. The only drivers I needed to install were the video drivers and that was very painless.
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 10:26 am
by whizkid
Fedora 7 saw my T60's 3945 card with no help at all. WiFi works, but the activity LED on the status panel does not work with this driver. It used to work with the old iwl3945 driver.
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 8:09 pm
by moosport
are you using wpa too? My install did recognize the card. I believe the distro came with iwlwifi and it install wlan0.
But I'm still having problem. Dmesg shows it could not start up wlan0.
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 10:02 pm
by Volker
At least the current Fedora 7 kernel (i386 and x86_64) has both iwl3945 and iwl4965 drivers. You only need the firmware, "yum -y install iwlwifi-firmware.noarch" probably does the trick.
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 8:42 am
by whizkid
F7 didn't need any packages manually installed for the 3945. I am not using WPA, as my old b-only access point does not support it.
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 1:45 am
by moosport
Volker wrote:At least the current Fedora 7 kernel (i386 and x86_64) has both iwl3945 and iwl4965 drivers. You only need the firmware, "yum -y install iwlwifi-firmware.noarch" probably does the trick.
but what about WPA? Do I need to install wpa supplicant?
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 11:24 am
by Volker
Yes you need wpa_supplicant for WPA. And I'd suggest NetworkManager (and nm-applet) to control/configure the whole thing.
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 12:43 am
by moosport
Volker wrote:Yes you need wpa_supplicant for WPA. And I'd suggest NetworkManager (and nm-applet) to control/configure the whole thing.
is there any reliable instructions on how to install all these pieces? I'm at the point of configuring wpa_supplicant.conf but there is no clear instructiona on how to do so.
The instructions here is confusing.
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Wpa_supplicant
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 12:21 pm
by Volker
1) Install everything necessary
This will pull in all relevant dependencies, for example wpa_supplicant.
2) Make sure it loads at startup:
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chkconfig --level 5 NetworkManager on
chkconfig --level 5 NetworkManagerDispatcher on
chkconfig --level 5 wpa_supplicant on
3) Reboot into your gnome user desktop and run (Alt-F2) nm-applet
Click on the applet to select wireless network.
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 12:46 am
by moosport
Volker wrote:1) Install everything necessary
This will pull in all relevant dependencies, for example wpa_supplicant.
2) Make sure it loads at startup:
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chkconfig --level 5 NetworkManager on
chkconfig --level 5 NetworkManagerDispatcher on
chkconfig --level 5 wpa_supplicant on
3) Reboot into your gnome user desktop and run (Alt-F2) nm-applet
Click on the applet to select wireless network.
I tried both WPA and WPA2 Personal and none works. Do I need to enter 0x in the password field prior to entering my passphrase? I'm using TKIP.
Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:36 am
by Volker
In the password field you enter your (ascii) password. You probably confuse the password with your hex psk. You don't need to enter any hex numbers.
Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 1:25 am
by moosport
I get the following message from Selinux when try to connect wirelessly using NetworkManager.
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avc: denied { rmdir } for comm="wpa_supplicant" dev=dm-0 egid=0 euid=0 exe="/usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant" exit=0 fsgid=0 fsuid=0 gid=0 items=0 name="wpa_supplicant" pid=3270 scontext=system_u:system_r:NetworkManager_t:s0 sgid=0 subj=system_u:system_r:NetworkManager_t:s0 suid=0 tclass=dir tcontext=system_u:object_r:var_run_t:s0 tty=(none) uid=0
Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 10:56 am
by Volker
I'm not getting these. Are you really using the Fedora 7 rpm for wpa_supplicant? Whats the output of
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rpm -V wpa_supplicant
rpm -q wpa_supplicant
Did you install all Fedora 7 updates?
You can also try without selinux ("setenforce 0") to see if that is the problem.
Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:42 pm
by moosport
Volker wrote:I'm not getting these. Are you really using the Fedora 7 rpm for wpa_supplicant? Whats the output of
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rpm -V wpa_supplicant
rpm -q wpa_supplicant
Did you install all Fedora 7 updates?
You can also try without selinux ("setenforce 0") to see if that is the problem.
Here are the results.
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#rpm -V wpa_supplicant
.M....G. /var/run/wpa_supplicant
# rpm -q wpa_supplicant
wpa_supplicant-0.5.7-3.fc7
With Selinux disable, I still cannot connect wirelessly.