You’ve heard it before, but I really have tried everything.
dmesg complains about deauthenticating for reason 3,
ifconfig complains about wlan0 being no such device,
SIOCCSFLAGS complains about error 132
Network-Manager is of course no help
wlan0 used to go up or down randomly, but recently, it won’t even go up. Horrible.
I searched all over the forums to no avail, and even dug through intel’s download page. I got the furthest doing the following:
Intel® Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN
Did that all the way up to make, make install, then got:
Makefile has been modified by generate_compatible, please run `make’ again
I’m running:
openSUSE 11.2
KDE 4.3
Sony VAIO VGN-FE670G
IntelPROWireless 3945 ABG
I’m pretty good in the terminal and was hoping a guru might come along and guide me to an non-GUI resolution.
Let’s do this.
Here’s the commands I did up until now:
doom:/home/alex # wget \
http://intellinuxwireless.org/iwlwifi/downloads/iwlwifi-3945-ucode-2.14.4.tgz
doom:/home/alex # tar xvf iwlwifi-3945-ucode-2.14.4.tgz
doom:/home/alex # cp iwlwifi-3945-ucode-2.14.4/iwlwifi-3945.ucode /lib/firmware/
doom:/home/alex # wget
http://intellinuxwireless.org/iwlwifi/downloads/iwlwifi-1.2.25.tgz
doom:/home/alex # tar xvf iwlwifi-1.2.25.tgz
doom:/home/alex # cd iwlwifi-1.2.25
doom:/home/alex/iwlwifi-1.2.25 # make
Kernel Makefile not found at ‘/lib/modules/2.6.31.8-0.1-desktop/source’
chmod: cannot access `compatible/*’: No such file or directory
/bin/sh: line 2: compatible/kversion: No such file or directory
Makefile has been modified by generate_compatible, please run `make’ again
make: *** [compatible/kversion] Error 1
doom:/home/alex/iwlwifi-1.2.25 # make install
make: *** No rule to make target compatible/iwl4965.ko', needed by install’. Stop.
Then I did this out of frustration:
doom:/home/alex/iwlwifi-1.2.25 # make uninstall
rm -rf /lib/modules/2.6.31.8-0.1-desktop/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwl4965.ko /lib/modules/2.6.31.8-0.1-desktop/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwl3945.ko
/sbin/depmod -a 2.6.31.8-0.1-desktop
Maybe woops??
Hope this sheds light.
Solved!!
All I had to do was take apart my laptop and clean off the kill switch. Turns out it was just dirty.
Cheers.
On 04/21/2010 07:16 PM, openalex wrote:
>
> Solved!!
>
> All I had to do was take apart my laptop and clean off the kill
> switch. Turns out it was just dirty.
It is amazing how many of these “software” problems turn out to be
hardware. Usually, the OP just failed to notice that the switch was off,
but the switches do fail. I give mine a few cycles per week to keep the
contacts clean.