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4zimuth

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Registered: 2006-12-22

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IPW3945 issue of HP Pavilion DV5000

Im having trouble getting my laptop to associate with my access point.
I have installed the driver, it loads on boot up. When i open up wifi-radar, all networks are shown.
I try to connect to my access point but recieve no IP adress, even though wifi-radar reports a successful connection. I am unable to even ping the router. Same issue when using kwifimanager or when manually editing /etc/rc.conf

Appreciate the help.

e_tank

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Registered: 2006-12-21

Posts: 80

Re: IPW3945 issue of HP Pavilion DV5000

i have a thinkpad t60p with an ipw3945, not sure if this will be of any help but here's how i set mine up.

first i have udev always give the card the name wlan0 by putting the following line in etc/udev/rules.d/10-network.rules (with my mac address instead of xx here)

SUBSYSTEM=="net", ATTRS{address}=="xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx", NAME="wlan0"

next in /etc/conf.d/wireless i have following lines where i specify my essid

wlan_wlan0="wlan0 essid Home"
WLAN_INTERFACES=(wlan0)

and in /etc/rc.conf i did the following:
-put the module ipw3945 in the modules list
-added wlan0="dhcp" and added it to the interfaces list
-added ipw3954d followed by network in the deamons list

edit:
also posting the output you get from iwconfig after you try and connect may help people determine what's wrong

Last edited by e_tank (2007-03-25 22:09:21)

broch

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From: L.A. California

Registered: 2006-11-13

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Re: IPW3945 issue of HP Pavilion DV5000

ipw3945 does not use wlan interface, instead it would be eth1

related excerpts from /etc/rc.conf (dhcp config)

MODULES=(ipw3945)
lo="lo 127.0.0.1"
eth0="dhcp"
eth1="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(lo !eth0 !eth1)

#assuming router at 192.168.1.1 or dynamic
gateway="default gw 192.168.1.1"
#gateway=
ROUTES=(!gateway)

DAEMONS=(@network dhcdbd @networkmanager @ipw3945d)

reboot, run from command line:
lsmod grep | ipw
ifconfig
iwconfig

baze

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Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 393

Re: IPW3945 issue of HP Pavilion DV5000

DAEMONS=(@network dhcdbd @networkmanager @ipw3945d)

correct me if i'm wrong, but ipw3945d should be started before network, right?

Last edited by baze (2007-03-27 11:43:07)

fk

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-04-29

Posts: 524

Re: IPW3945 issue of HP Pavilion DV5000

DAEMONS=(@network dhcdbd @networkmanager @ipw3945d)

correct me if i'm wrong, but ipw3945d should be started before network, right?

right

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Have you tried to turn it off and on again?

broch

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From: L.A. California

Registered: 2006-11-13

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Re: IPW3945 issue of HP Pavilion DV5000

First is loaded wired NIC (kernel), before network anyway. If you start external module (e.g. ipw3945) before or after network, practically does not matter.

Last edited by broch (2007-03-27 13:57:27)

4zimuth

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Registered: 2006-12-22

Posts: 3

Re: IPW3945 issue of HP Pavilion DV5000

Thanks for all your help.
I figured it out, the problem was dhcp, I manually set the ip adress and everything is fine.

one more thing, broch in your configuration you have put an exclamation mark before the interfaces, doesnt that blacklist them.

Last edited by 4zimuth (2007-03-28 00:28:40)

karmapolice

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Registered: 2007-01-31

Posts: 113

Re: IPW3945 issue of HP Pavilion DV5000

Yes because he is using networkmanager to manage the wireless, you can check the wiki.

4zimuth

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Registered: 2006-12-22

Posts: 3

Re: IPW3945 issue of HP Pavilion DV5000

ohh forgot about network manager