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ipsofacto2000

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Registered: 2012-04-09

Posts: 2

Help with 3945ABG Wireless

Hello to the Board

I'd be most grateful is someone could please help me get my wireless connection up and running on my HP dv2000.  I have installed network manager which connects fine when using wired connection.

When I click the network manager icon I can even see my Hub but I just cant connect ('Wireless Networks' is grey and says 'Disconected').  I'm sure it's something embarassingly simple but regardless, I am starting to get frustrated !!

Here is some info:

 [ipsofacto@MyBox splashy-full]$ lspci | grep -i net
05:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)
08:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation PRO/100 VE Network Connection (rev 02)

 [ipsofacto@MyBox splashy-full]$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11abg  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=15 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          
eth0      no wireless extensions. 

[ipsofacto@MyBox splashy-full]$ dmesg | grep -i wifi
[    5.004275] iwl3945 0000:05:00.0: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 3945ABG 

I am using XFCE4

Apologies if I have left something of importance out.  This is the Newbie forum !!

Thanks for reading..

Last edited by ipsofacto2000 (2012-04-09 13:57:29)

hadrons123

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From: chennai

Registered: 2011-10-07

Posts: 1,249

Re: Help with 3945ABG Wireless

post output of

rfkill list all

edit:
install rfkill if not installed before.

Last edited by hadrons123 (2012-04-09 18:58:48)

Gcool

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Registered: 2011-08-16

Posts: 1,456

Re: Help with 3945ABG Wireless

Welcome to the forums.

I suggest you take a few minutes to read the Wireless Setup page on the wiki. It has alot of useful info on how to setup your wifi (and even a separate section for your specific card).

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linuxxnutt

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Registered: 2011-04-11

Posts: 14

Re: Help with 3945ABG Wireless

I have the same exact wireless. Is there a hardware switch for the wireless i had the same problem a while go it was grayed out in network manager.

hadrons123

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From: chennai

Registered: 2011-10-07

Posts: 1,249

Re: Help with 3945ABG Wireless

I have the same exact wireless. Is there a hardware switch for the wireless i had the same problem a while go it was grayed out in network manager.

How are we supposed to know whether you have a hardware switch or not, when you dont post the output what i 've asked in my last post.

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,607

Re: Help with 3945ABG Wireless

Is there a hardware switch for the wireless

How could we know if *your* machine has a hardware switch? Think about it.

Anyway, while a ipw3945 problem was reported for 3.4-rc1, it's possible that backporting stuff to 3.3.1 broke that version too. So try this patch: http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=13 … 427374&w=2
Kernel 3.4-rc2 has this patch already applied, so you could also try that. Yert another possibility is using wireless-compat.

Last edited by Gusar (2012-04-10 08:37:04)

linuxxnutt

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Registered: 2011-04-11

Posts: 14

Re: Help with 3945ABG Wireless

Srry about my previous post. I should of said you can try and check the bios to see if wlan is disabled. I had it happen to me once but it would still show up under network manager.