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iarwain ben-adar

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Registered: 2006-12-15

Posts: 18

Module ipw3945 not found =(

Hi everyone,
first time poster

I'm am trying to get my wifi working (an ipw3945),

so as a good person, i read and followed the wiki that talks about the ipw3945.
Installed it, but can't have any wireless..

I think the problem may be this:

[root@iarwain-laptop ~] modprobe ipw3945
FATAL: Module ipw3945 not found.

What could be the cause of this?

Iarwain

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: Module ipw3945 not found =(

'pacman -Qs kernel26' tells you what?

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iarwain ben-adar

Member

Registered: 2006-12-15

Posts: 18

Re: Module ipw3945 not found =(

[root@iarwain-laptop~] pacman -Qs kernel26
local/kernel26 2.16.16-1
     The linux kernel and modules

Iarwain

byte

Member

From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: Module ipw3945 not found =(

Ugh. Would it be much of an hassle for you to reinstall with this: http://www.archlinux.org/~tpowa/newisos … 9-i686.iso ?

Keeping your system up to date is kind of essential in Arch and there were quite a few kernel/bootup-related changes since the 0.7.2-installer was released.

The general installation concept goes like this:
- use the latest ISO
- install only the "base" set of packages
- upon successful reboot after the install, learn to know pacman (rtfm, fix mirrors etc)
- then run 'pacman -Syu' (read the output and act accordingly, especially if it's from the kernel pkg)
- configure your system, install stuff, have fun!

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iarwain ben-adar

Member

Registered: 2006-12-15

Posts: 18

Re: Module ipw3945 not found =(

Lol, 18Mb ?

Dwnloading now, i'll see how it goes

Thanks for the heads-up

Iarwain