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Hi,
I have a DWL-G510 wireless G Desktop adapter, I searched for the driver and I need madwifi. While installing archlinux I chose the packages 'wireless-tools' and 'madwifi'. However, I tried the commands below with no succes:
modprobe ath_pci
hwdetect --show-net
*NET :8139cp 8139too mii ppp_generic slhc mac8012 rfkill rt2x00lib rt2x00pci rt61pci cfg80211
lsmod | grep ath
*ath_pci
*wlan
*ath_hal
iwconfig
*lo: no wireless extension
*eth0 no wireless extension
*wmaster0 no wireless extension
*wlan0 IEEE.....
ifconfig ath0 up
*ath0: unknown interface: No such device
ifconfig wlan0 up
*SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
/etc/rc.conf
wlan0="dhcp"
wlan_wlan0="wlan0 essid MYESSID key s:mykey23kdzer"
INTERFACES=(wlan0)
Anyone who can help me out?
Thanks in advance
Last edited by gudgip (2009-02-09 20:01:16)
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Bump.. no-one?
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I'm experiencing the same problem as you.
On my box, /var/log/messags shows
Feb 21 09:44:18 mybox iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode
Feb 21 09:44:18 mybox iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
Feb 21 09:44:18 mybox firmware.sh[2475]: Cannot find firmware file 'iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode
Check if this is happening on your machine also.
If it is, it means the firmware is missing. You'll have to download it from
http://intellinuxwireless.org/?n=downloads
But.. the firmware that's offered for download there is iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode instead of iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode. So this means we'll have to update the driver as well, to a version that uses the -2 firmware instead of the -1. Still working on that one...
Anyway, this should get you started on the right path. If you manage to get a working setup before I do, please let me know :-)
Good luck,
Caspar.
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Firmware is in the repositories. iwlwifi-3945-ucode
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Sorry, I forgot to reply, I already have mine working, first I tried the netinstall, it autodetected my wireless card! I figured out that I didn't need the madwifi driver (as is said on most forums/wireless card lists) I needed the: rt61pci
Hope this helps.
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I got the firmware from the intellinuxwireless website. Wirless working now.
Thanks all,
Caspar.
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This one worked for me:
bash-3.2# cd /lib/firmware/
bash-3.2# cp iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode
Jun 1 14:07:42 banana kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
Jun 1 14:07:58 banana kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
Jun 1 14:09:08 banana ntpd[6234]: Listening on interface #3 wlan0, 192.168.15.104#123 Enabled
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