Disable ipw3945 and enable zd1211rw

[trogster]

I have a HP laptop with an onboard wifi that uses ipw3945 driver. It gets configured on boot and I can use knetworkmanager to connect to a wifi network.
But I want to use an usb wifi adapter that works with the zd1211rw driver, I had use it in the past but I don't use linux since like 1 year, I forgot how to do it.

What I want is to disable the board that uses ipw3945 and use the usb adapter.

I remember I used modprobe zd1211rw before, I tried it and it doesn't show any warning/error so I think I have the module, should I remove ipw3945 before loading zd1211rw?

After using modprobe zd1211rw, can I use Yast or how do I configure it so I can use it with knetworkmanager?

[lwfinger]

On 06/04/2010 12:06 PM, trogster wrote:
>
> I have a HP laptop with an onboard wifi that uses ipw3945 driver. It
> gets configured on boot and I can use knetworkmanager to connect to a
> wifi network.
> But I want to use an usb wifi adapter that works with the zd1211rw
> driver, I had use it in the past but I don't use linux since like 1
> year, I forgot how to do it.
>
> What I want is to disable the board that uses ipw3945 and use the usb
> adapter.
>
> I remember I used modprobe zd1211rw before, I tried it and it doesn't
> show any warning/error so I think I have the module, should I remove
> ipw3945 before loading zd1211rw?
>
> After using modprobe zd1211rw, can I use Yast or how do I configure it
> so I can use it with knetworkmanager?

If you add ipw3945 to the blacklisted modules in
/etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf (for 11.2 or later) or
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf (for 11.1), then that driver will never
be loaded. Once the zd1211rw is loaded, creates a wireless device that
you can see with /usr/sbin/iwconfig, and is able to scan as with 'sudo
/usr/sbin/iwlist scan', then kNM will find it and use the same
connection as did the ipw3945.

[trogster]

On 06/04/2010 12:06 PM, trogster wrote:
>
> I have a HP laptop with an onboard wifi that uses ipw3945 driver. It
> gets configured on boot and I can use knetworkmanager to connect to a
> wifi network.
> But I want to use an usb wifi adapter that works with the zd1211rw
> driver, I had use it in the past but I don't use linux since like 1
> year, I forgot how to do it.
>
> What I want is to disable the board that uses ipw3945 and use the usb
> adapter.
>
> I remember I used modprobe zd1211rw before, I tried it and it doesn't
> show any warning/error so I think I have the module, should I remove
> ipw3945 before loading zd1211rw?
>
> After using modprobe zd1211rw, can I use Yast or how do I configure it
> so I can use it with knetworkmanager?

If you add ipw3945 to the blacklisted modules in
/etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf (for 11.2 or later) or
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf (for 11.1), then that driver will never
be loaded. Once the zd1211rw is loaded, creates a wireless device that
you can see with /usr/sbin/iwconfig, and is able to scan as with 'sudo
/usr/sbin/iwlist scan', then kNM will find it and use the same
connection as did the ipw3945.

Awesome, thank you very much.

[trogster]

I added "blacklist ipw3945" and restarted but the module still appears in lsmod, anyway I can do a modprobe -r ipw3945.
But when I do modprobe zd1211rw the wireless device doesn't appear in iwconfig, if I use iwlist scan I see: "lo, eth0 doesn't support scanning", iwconfig show "no wireless extensions", and lsmod show zd1211rw loaded.

Do I need to do something else after modprobe zd1211rw to get the wireless device in eth1?

[trogster]

I found with dmesg that the firmware cant be found, I will try reinstalling it.

[trogster]

I reinstalled it from opensuse cd and it worked, i will try patching it later.

Thank you very much for your help lwfinger.