dell d630 - PRO/Wireless 3945ABG

[deltaflyer44]

or maybe use the compat-wireless driver, may work for you. check out Akoellh's repo for it Index of /repositories/home:/Akoellh

Andy

[lodogg]

Sounds great but can I have some direction on how to roll back my kernel or update it to a new one? Thanks for all of the help so far!

-lo

[lodogg]

I just spent several days getting my sound to work would changing my kernel break my sound ?

[caf4926]

Very likely Yes.

[lodogg]

Well I would rather have my wireless working. So how do I roll back or upgrade from another repository.

-lo

[caf4926]

If you have eth0, roll back is easy. Open software management and find the installed kernel
Highlight it and click the versions tab
see the radio buttons, select the one down in the list

It should automatically roll all associated packages back too.

OR
What did you do in the firs place to get wireless working?

[lodogg]

I will try to roll back my kernel from YaST. Wireless sort of works right now, I can scan wireless networks but I can't associate to the Access Points.

-lo

[lodogg]

So after lot's of testing my driver was just fine it was my lack of understanding Linux and the CLI. I was able to see what was happening in the background by creating a /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file and running the command following command "wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -s/etc/wpa_suplicant.conf".

I also had to run "dhclient wlan0" to receive an IP which was also nice to see a DHCP broadcast to my gateway. The problem is when I go to ping an outside host it dies. I can ping my hosts on the inside lan but my default route seems to be broken along with DNS. Am I missing a command for dhclient to pull over the gateway information and DNS settings?


I was also configuring my Cisco 1131 incorrectly I thought I enabled SSID broadcasting but it was not configured properly. So I found the great article below, if anyone else runs into this Cisco configuration issue.

Q. If you turn off Broadcast Service Set Identifies (SSID) on a wireless bridge product, does the action prohibit an access of the network by rogue IEEE 802.11b users?

A. If you do not want 802.11b clients on the bridge, leave the default Role in the Radio network value to bridge only mode. This allows only other bridges to communicate with the device. If you turn off broadcast, you prevent the registration of most users without the SSID. However, some clients can probe and display SSIDs. The client can then change the SSID and reassociate. Remember, SSID is not for security. SSID is only a means of access control. Choose Configuration > Radio > I802.11 to turn broadcast off in VxWorks products. Click the SSID Manager tab and set no SSID for guest mode to turn broadcast off in products with Cisco IOS Software.

[lodogg]

hummm after a reboot all is working now!! Sound and wireless I never thought the day would come