Intel 3945abg with Opensuse 11

[buckesfeld]

On 07/24/2008 mitch1976 wrote:
> And it recognises my wireless and scans!! Doesn't connect yet though
> but presumably that is because the router is set for WEP and not WPA
> ??

Dunno, you should be able to configure a connection for WEP through the network manager applet.

Uwe

[einheit47]

Kernel 2.6.26 (released 13 July) has some interesting changes to the iwlwifi driver which can be found here:

Linux 2 6 26 - Linux Kernel Newbies

Some highlights include:

Improvements to 4965 for 802.11n.
Support for hardware WEP.
Support for hardware TKIP.
**Support for the LED (most importantly)**

Maybe this doesn't help you right this moment, but it seems like there's a chance the WEP support improvements may help your situation.

[itfsos]

me too! now network manager lets me find wireless connections,but i can't connect to my WEP encrypted connection..a kernel problem i think..or maybe i can try some other wifi manager like wicd,but i don't know hw to compile it from source,it isn't the classic "./configure - make - make install"!

[buckesfeld]

* itfsos,

there are other network managers included (kdenetwork3-wireless, kwlan), but to find out if it is really the kernel, I'd actually try and configure WEP through Yast and use ifup.

Uwe

[resturp72]

sorry 4 the delay, your dmesg looks good, same here

I have WEP open system with a 64 bit key.
I use the 11g, not 11a part of my linksys router.
I used to have a sweex but that didn't work.

The device is also the same. I'm clueless.

[buckesfeld]

* resturp72,

what I noticed with my AVM Fritzbox is that the Networkmanager doesn't seem to accept the key in ASCII. If I enter the key in Hex, I get a connection immediately.

Uwe

[resturp72]

True, I tried passfrases and ASCI sometimes without success.
I use hexcodes too. maybe we should start a best practice and success section :-)

[itfsos]

ok...this week i can't try nothing because i'm on the sea and without internet!next week i'll try with ifup or with the unstable version of opensuse,where i can install the new kernel 2.6.26!

[jerryyyyy]

Originally Posted by mitch1976

I've done that
try and disable hw_scan.
Open a console, become root.
touch /etc/modprobe.d/iwl3945

Edit the file and add
alias wlan0 iwl3945
options iwl3945 disable_hw_scan=1

And it recognises my wireless and scans!! Doesn't connect yet though but presumably that is because the router is set for WEP and not WPA ??

I now see the wireless hub. Thanks and this worked for the 4965 too.