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pionium

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Registered: 2007-02-09

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[solved] ipw3945 problem on IBM R60e

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I made a new install of Arch Linux 8.02 beta, and now I finally get the wireless
card to work.
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hi,
I'm fairly new to Arch Linux and am having some problems getting my ipw3945 working under Arch Linux. Also, I cannot find a solution to this in this forum (which may suggest it is a trivial problem).

dmesg gives a reply I do not understand. Should I update the kernel? if so, how?
Any other tips?

Below is some information about the setup.
On beforehand thanks.

uname -a

Linux myhost 2.6.18-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Nov 19 09:14:35 CET 2006 i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU           T2300  @ 1.66GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

modprobe ipw3945

FATAL: Error inserting ipw3945 (/lib/modules/2.6.18-ARCH/ipw3945.ko): Invalid module format

iwconfig

lo        no wireless extensions.
eth0      no wireless extensions.
sit0      no wireless extensions.

dmesg

ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, 1.2.16
ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
ipw3945: version magic '2.6.19-ARCH SMP preempt mod_unload 686 REGPARM ' should be '2.6.18-ARCH SMP preempt mod_unload 686 REGPARM gcc-4.1'
input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input1
ipw3945: version magic '2.6.19-ARCH SMP preempt mod_unload 686 REGPARM ' should be '2.6.18-ARCH SMP preempt mod_unload 686 REGPARM gcc-4.1'

/sbin/ifconfig -a

eth0      wired lan

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:36 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:36 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:1800 (1.7 Kb)  TX bytes:1800 (1.7 Kb)

sit0      Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-31-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
          NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

Last edited by pionium (2007-03-09 01:08:11)

fk

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-04-29

Posts: 524

Re: [solved] ipw3945 problem on IBM R60e

which kernel-version do you use? Have you installed the ipw3945 package?

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Have you tried to turn it off and on again?

pionium

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Registered: 2007-02-09

Posts: 9

Re: [solved] ipw3945 problem on IBM R60e

thanks for replying.
I use the 2.6.18 kernel and I installed driver, deamon with pacman.

fk

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-04-29

Posts: 524

Re: [solved] ipw3945 problem on IBM R60e

Do you use an selfcompiled Kernel

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pionium

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Registered: 2007-02-09

Posts: 9

Re: [solved] ipw3945 problem on IBM R60e

no, I didn't compile the kernel myself. I'm very new to Arch Linux, but have some experience with ubuntu.

fk

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-04-29

Posts: 524

Re: [solved] ipw3945 problem on IBM R60e

Hm I think you have installed the ipw3945 packege from the I-Net right? Then you must update to the newest kernel, the drivers only compiled for the newest kernel.

The best thing is you do an pacman -Syu

Last edited by fk (2007-03-07 11:09:20)

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pionium

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Registered: 2007-02-09

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Re: [solved] ipw3945 problem on IBM R60e

nope, that didn't work either. I upgraded a few weeks ago, but it just brought additional issues. I'm thinking now that I should try to do something more drastic, like reinstalling the kernel; if I knew how that is.

fk

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-04-29

Posts: 524

Re: [solved] ipw3945 problem on IBM R60e

nope, that didn't work either. I upgraded a few weeks ago, but it just brought additional issues. I'm thinking now that I should try to do something more drastic, like reinstalling the kernel; if I knew how that is.

Hm, what kind of issues? can you explain?

If you have a fast internet connection i suggest to reinstall Arch with the 0.8 Beta2 Ftp Iso, if you can not upgrade normaly

Last edited by fk (2007-03-07 22:54:57)

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pionium

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Registered: 2007-02-09

Posts: 9

Re: [solved] ipw3945 problem on IBM R60e

well, first of all, firefox had start-up problems (seems to be fixed now). Now and again konqueror file browser crashes when I start it the first time after booting (doesn't seem to be reproducable).
I also just tried to install Knetworkmanager, but it crashes as well.

pionium

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Registered: 2007-02-09

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Re: [solved] ipw3945 problem on IBM R60e

I'll try resolving this by installing a more recent (or maybe beta) version and see how that goes.