ipw3945 wireless questions

JohnnyBoy022 · 2008-02-20 01:14:15

hey everyone, I just installed arch and I'm trying to get wireless working. I have intel pro wireless 3945 card. When I installed from the cd it said something about specifying to use the intel wireless driver. I didn't do this, but from what I've heard that is only so the cd installer can use it, is this correct? arch should have installed iwlwifi drivers automatically anyway?

assuming my drivers are working (which im not 100% sure, how can i check?), now I need help setting up my network. I've always had trouble since its encrypted, and usually when I use GUI tools with other distros (like Ubuntu) I have to select a "hex" option. How do I specify that my key is in hex?

last question, is there any way to scan for available networks? Thanks for any help

thayer · 2008-02-20 02:00:35

The wiki is your friend. I can't stress this enough to all the new users I've seen come on board in the past week or so:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_Setup

JohnnyBoy022 · 2008-02-20 02:10:38

I can't seem to find anything about hex or scanning for available networks in the wiki

thayer · 2008-02-20 05:11:41

JohnnyBoy022 wrote:

I can't seem to find anything about hex or scanning for available networks in the wiki

By following the iwl3945 section, you'll be able to figure out whether your drivers are working properly (by running ifconfig in a terminal as it states). To scan for wireless signals, after your drivers are configured, run as root:

# iwlist wlan0 scan

With respect to the hex passkey, I believe that's wep wifi security which I have virtually no experience with so I can't be of much help. I can only refer you to this article which does discuss the passkeys including hex:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wpa_supplicant

Arch is in a transition with its internal network scripts. They are available via the testing repo and seem to be streamlining a good deal of connections. A search on the forums for Netcfg should turn up some useful info.

Last edited by thayer (2008-02-20 05:13:06)

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