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El Bastardo

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Registered: 2006-06-21

Posts: 19

ipw3945d issue

Hi All,

I just got an update to ipw3945d-1.7.22-2 and since the update, my wireless won't start at boot anymore.
When I then manually enter iwconfig eth2 yadayadayada, ifconfig eth2 up and dhcpd eth2 it works fine.
Any ideas?

thx,

Leon..

STiAT

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From: Vienna, Austria

Registered: 2004-12-23

Posts: 606

Re: ipw3945d issue

Will test and take a look on this.

Are you sure your rc.conf and conf.d/wireless have eth2 entered? so the device didn't change?

Maybe a completely different problem, got also a 1945d card on my notebook, but i can't test right now at work... some hours maybe.

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El Bastardo

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Registered: 2006-06-21

Posts: 19

Re: ipw3945d issue

Will test and take a look on this.

Are you sure your rc.conf and conf.d/wireless have eth2 entered? so the device didn't change?

Maybe a completely different problem, got also a 1945d card on my notebook, but i can't test right now at work... some hours maybe.

yup, the only change to my system was the update..

STiAT

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From: Vienna, Austria

Registered: 2004-12-23

Posts: 606

Re: ipw3945d issue

see post below... was wrong information

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billy

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From: Slovenia

Registered: 2006-09-13

Posts: 164

Re: ipw3945d issue

i have a different kind of problem but also with an ipw3945d driver. when i want to connect to internet with wifi-radar, kernel spits some information out on vc/1 listing all loaded modules and some more information. and then i cant run any program and i need to restart. if i run wifi-radar daemon at startup it writes the same message and everything stops loading. i'll try to retype what it is written on vc/1.

oh and i noticed that after using ethernet cable connection i have 600MB (out of 1024MB) more free ram . . . Before it was always almost full (at least after firefox was started) 

EDIT: and the key (fn+F2) doesn't work to turn on the wireless but just to shut down

STiAT

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From: Vienna, Austria

Registered: 2004-12-23

Posts: 606

Re: ipw3945d issue

Well... located the problem.

The error i posted above is wrong.
The device is not ready on boot time, it seems as if the driver needs too long to initialize the ressource.

The driver loads - indeed it does. but the network isn't ready this time. the boot progress goes on, and the device is not there yet.

Some secs later, it is there.

I tried some scripts on load of ipw3945, using /sbin/ipw3945d --isrunning, in a until loop. The daemon says it's running - sure, the daemon runs, but it would take longer.

I simply think the driver / daemon needs a load on time to boot up.

simply doing

/sbin/ipw3945d --isrunning
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
  echo "daemon running.."
fi

says it's running. 0 is the status for running in the daemon.

WORKAROUND
I simply set the sleep in the /etc/rc.d/ipw3945d up to 10 secs from 1 sec... isn't nice but works.

I'll file a bug report at ipw, i'd appreciate a function to check if the ressource is allocated or not.

I contacted James Ketrenos at intel, and filed a bug report to the ipw3945 project, maybe he knows a solution, it's a well known problem of this driver.

// STi

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