Intel 3945abg with Opensuse 11

[itfsos]

Hi all!

I've done a fresh install of Opensuse 11 Kde4,and immediately i've found problems with my intel 3945abg wireless card and my WEP encrypted connection..simply i can't see it from my laptop

i tried connecting from terminal with

iwconfig wlan0 essid myessid
iwconfig wlan0 key myhexkey
dhclient wlan0

but nothing happened..

then i tried compiling compat-wireless drivers from source! i was able to compile,install and load them,but my wireless card doesn't recognize anything yet.

I've read about a lot of people that solved with these drivers,am I the only person in the world that can't solve this problem?? O_O

any tips?

P.S. I'm running kernel 2.6.25.11-0.1-default for i586 architecture.

Cheers,Fabio

[resturp72]

I've been there too.

google for "compat wireless" do everything they tell you to but do not type make unload.

Just load the new drivers over the old ones. Your let won't work but it solved my isseus.

Cheers, Thomas

[itfsos]

as you can read above i've already downloaded,extracted,installed and loaded compat-wireless drivers following the instructions on linuxwireless.org (i did not run "make unload" but only "make load",like you did),but i can't have my card working!

[einheit47]

I know this isn't a direct answer to your problem, but is there any way you could try changing your encryption to WPA? It's not like WEP is very secure anyway (Google "aircrack").

Also, have you tried connecting via Network Manager by manually supplying it with your connection details, including WEP key?

[itfsos]

I also tried via Network Manager to manually connect,but it doesn't works!
now i can't change my encryption because my brother is unavailable and he's the only one to remember router's admin password! By the way I don't think it will works..my card doesn't recognize nothing,and i think this is not an encryption problem! thanks anyway!

[resturp72]

could you post the results of:

dmesg | grep iwl3945

and the nic part of

lspci -v

[itfsos]

P.S. i forgot to say that the card is recognized by the system,obviously!

these are the results:

fabbio@linux-q9xd:~> dmesg | grep iwl3945
iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver for Linux, 1.2.26ks
iwl3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2008 Intel Corporation
iwl3945: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 3945ABG
iwl3945: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 23 802.11a channels

linux-q9xd:/home/fabbio # lspci -v

......03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 1001
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 219
        Memory at fe1ff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [d0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable+
        Capabilities: [e0] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
        Kernel driver in use: iwl3945
        Kernel modules: iwl3945

[buckesfeld]

* itfsos,

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

Reboot.

Uwe

[itfsos]

i tried but...nothing!

[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 ??