Suse 9.3 Professional + Intel® Pro/wireless 3945abg

Hi, i recently tried to enable my wlan card.
I am using 9.3 64-bit over a year now with no issues for my work.


The built-in cards both ethernet and wireless could not work out of the box.
Ethernet card was easy to install driver e1000,
but wireless is a pain in my ***

ndiswrapper of the distro was version 1.1
After moving to latest kernel 2.6.11.4-21.7-smp
had to find a newer ndiswrapper. Version 1.2-1-37 could compile in my system
but although i have downloaded Windows XP-64 bit inf file from intel i cannot get it
to work since ndiswrapper cannot load well the driver.

module is loaded on kernel but there is a message 'wrong driver'

I downloaded latest ndiswrapper 1.5x but could not compile

The second thought is to try microcode,demon ipw3945,intel driver approach
herehttp://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/

Should it work that?

Is there any other approach or the kernel is too old for any approach i am trying?

Um, part of the problem might be your using 9.3. It's a little out of date, so the latest ndiswrapper and drivers might not work at all.

Just a thought. You might want to try 10.3, it's cool!

Unfortunately due to work platform limitation (compatibility) i cannot move at 10.x at this
time although i wanted that. So any solution?

Since that thehttp://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/ won't work with my kernel,
because that is what said the support by e-mail.

So i am looking for a ndiswrapper version that compiles on 2.6.11.4-21.7-smp of
Suse 9.3 Professional x86_64 and the appropriate 64-bit Windows driver...

I finally put 2.6.24 Kernel on Suse 9.3 and wifi is now recognized and i can
scan networks. I have trouble on configuring WEP/WAP but i will find it.
It is the only way unfortunately to update to newer kernel.