Can't get the ipw3945 wireless working

ddrplayer512 · 2007-12-27 18:45:47

Hi everyone!

I'm new to arch linux and I was wondering, how do I get the "ipw3945" wireless card in my laptop to work. I thought I followed the instructions carefully in the wiki, but nothing seems to work. It even tells me that it does not detect one. But I know it is there because I use Ubuntu, have used Debian, openSUSE, Fedora, and others, and they use the same driver.

Can anyone help me figure this out?

Thank you.

-ddrplayer512

rochus · 2007-12-27 18:53:57

have you loaded the module properly and started the driver's daemon? Have you installed the ipw3945-ucode package?

modprobe ipw3945
/etc/rc.d/ipw3945d start

What does dmesg tell you?

ddrplayer512 · 2007-12-27 19:03:35

I'm not sure if I have installed the ipw3945-ucode package. Let me try to install that.

Should I type the command "dmesg" and paste the output of the commands here?

Last edited by ddrplayer512 (2007-12-27 19:05:04)

ddrplayer512 · 2007-12-27 19:09:47

Okay I type in "dmesg" and I get this output:

Linux version 2.6.23-ARCH (root@T-POWA-LX) (gcc version 4.2.2) #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 21 19:39:35 UTC 2007
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000dc000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003f680000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000003f680000 - 000000003f700000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 000000003f700000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fed00000 - 00000000fed00400 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fed14000 - 00000000fed1a000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fed1c000 - 00000000fed90000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ff000000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
118MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000f67f0
Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 259712) 0 entries of 256 used
Zone PFN ranges:
  DMA             0 ->     4096
  Normal       4096 ->   229376
  HighMem    229376 ->   259712
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
    0:        0 ->   259712
On node 0 totalpages: 259712
  DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
  DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
  DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
  Normal zone: 1760 pages used for memmap
  Normal zone: 223520 pages, LIFO batch:31
  HighMem zone: 237 pages used for memmap
  HighMem zone: 30099 pages, LIFO batch:7
  Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap
DMI present.
ACPI: RSDP 000F6700, 0024 (r3 HP    )
ACPI: XSDT 3F684628, 007C (r1 HPQOEM SLIC-MPC  6040000  LTP        0)
ACPI: FACP 3F68CC2A, 00F4 (r3 INTEL  CALISTGA  6040000 ALAN        1)
ACPI: DSDT 3F6854B4, 7702 (r1 HPQOEM SLIC-MPC  6040000 MSFT  3000000)
ACPI: FACS 3F68DFC0, 0040
ACPI: APIC 3F68CD1E, 0068 (r1 HPQOEM SLIC-MPC  6040000 LOHR       64)
ACPI: HPET 3F68CD86, 0038 (r1 HPQOEM SLIC-MPC  6040000 LOHR       64)
ACPI: MCFG 3F68CDBE, 003C (r1 HPQOEM SLIC-MPC  6040000 LOHR       64)
ACPI: SLIC 3F68CDFA, 0176 (r1 HPQOEM SLIC-MPC  6040000 HPQ         1)
ACPI: APIC 3F68CF70, 0068 (r1 HPQOEM SLIC-MPC  6040000  LTP        0)
ACPI: BOOT 3F68CFD8, 0028 (r1 HPQOEM SLIC-MPC  6040000  LTP        1)
ACPI: SSDT 3F6852AA, 020A (r1 HPQOEM SLIC-MPC     1000 INTL 20050624)
ACPI: SSDT 3F684C30, 025F (r1 HPQOEM SLIC-MPC     3000 INTL 20050624)
ACPI: SSDT 3F684B8A, 00A6 (r1 HPQOEM SLIC-MPC     3000 INTL 20050624)
ACPI: SSDT 3F6846A4, 04E6 (r1 HPQOEM SLIC-MPC     3000 INTL 20050624)
ACPI: BIOS bug: multiple APIC/MADT found, using 0
ACPI: If "acpi_apic_instance=2" works better, notify linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 6:14 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
Processor #1 6:14 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x01] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 1, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
Enabling APIC mode:  Flat.  Using 1 I/O APICs
ACPI: HPET id: 0x8086a201 base: 0xfed00000
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Allocating PCI resources starting at 50000000 (gap: 40000000:a0000000)
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000dc000
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000dc000 - 0000000000100000
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order.  Total pages: 257683
Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda3 ro
mapped APIC to ffffb000 (fee00000)
mapped IOAPIC to ffffa000 (fec00000)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
Detected 1596.069 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
console [tty0] enabled
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 1023540k/1038848k available (2444k kernel code, 14540k reserved, 818k data, 296k init, 121344k highmem)
virtual kernel memory layout:
    fixmap  : 0xfff80000 - 0xfffff000   ( 508 kB)
    pkmap   : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000   (4096 kB)
    vmalloc : 0xf8800000 - 0xff7fe000   ( 111 MB)
    lowmem  : 0xc0000000 - 0xf8000000   ( 896 MB)
      .init : 0xc0435000 - 0xc047f000   ( 296 kB)
      .data : 0xc03630a9 - 0xc042f99c   ( 818 kB)
      .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc03630a9   (2444 kB)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
SLUB: Genslabs=22, HWalign=64, Order=0-1, MinObjects=4, CPUs=2, Nodes=1
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3196.18 BogoMIPS (lpj=5325096)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfe9fbff 00100000 00000000 00000000 0000c189 00000000 00000000 00000000
monitor/mwait feature present.
using mwait in idle threads.
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfe9fbff 00100000 00000000 00002940 0000c189 00000000 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Early unpacking initramfs... done
ACPI: Core revision 20070126
ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initramfs... error, file /DSDT.aml not found.
CPU0: Intel Genuine Intel(R) CPU           T2050  @ 1.60GHz stepping 08
SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code
Booting processor 1/1 eip 3000
Initializing CPU#1
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3193.06 BogoMIPS (lpj=5320109)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfe9fbff 00100000 00000000 00000000 0000c189 00000000 00000000 00000000
monitor/mwait feature present.
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: Processor Core ID: 1
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfe9fbff 00100000 00000000 00002940 0000c189 00000000 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
CPU1: Intel Genuine Intel(R) CPU           T2050  @ 1.60GHz stepping 08
Total of 2 processors activated (6389.25 BogoMIPS).
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
checking TSC synchronization [CPU#0 -> CPU#1]: passed.
Brought up 2 CPUs
Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: Using MMCONFIG
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
ACPI: EC: GPE = 0x17, I/O: command/status = 0x66, data = 0x62
ACPI: System BIOS is requesting _OSI(Linux)
ACPI: If "acpi_osi=Linux" works better,
Please send dmidecode to linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: EC: GPE = 0x17, I/O: command/status = 0x66, data = 0x62
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI quirk: region 1000-107f claimed by ICH6 ACPI/GPIO/TCO
PCI quirk: region 1180-11bf claimed by ICH6 GPIO
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.RP01._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.RP03._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.RP04._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCIB._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 12 14 15) *11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 11 12 14 15) *10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 *10 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 11 12 14 15) *10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 *10 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 11 12 14 15) *10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 12 14 15) *11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 *11 12 14 15)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
ACPI: bus type pnp registered
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 11 devices
ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered
SCSI subsystem initialized
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq".  If it helps, post a report
NetLabel: Initializing
NetLabel:  domain hash size = 128
NetLabel:  protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
NetLabel:  unlabeled traffic allowed by default
ACPI: RTC can wake from S4
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
pnp: 00:01: iomem range 0xe0000000-0xefffffff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:01: iomem range 0xfed14000-0xfed17fff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:01: iomem range 0xfed18000-0xfed18fff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:01: iomem range 0xfed19000-0xfed19fff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:07: ioport range 0x6a0-0x6af has been reserved
pnp: 00:07: ioport range 0x6b0-0x6ff has been reserved
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.0
  IO window: 2000-2fff
  MEM window: d2000000-d3ffffff
  PREFETCH window: d0000000-d1ffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.2
  IO window: disabled.
  MEM window: disabled.
  PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.3
  IO window: disabled.
  MEM window: d4000000-d40fffff
  PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
  IO window: 3000-3fff
  MEM window: d4100000-d41fffff
  PREFETCH window: disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.0 to 64
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.2 to 64
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.3[D] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.3 to 64
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 786432 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
checking if image is initramfs...<6>Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 1
Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0
 it is
Freeing initrd memory: 1510k freed
Simple Boot Flag at 0x36 set to 0x1
apm: BIOS not found.
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 254)
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
Boot video device is 0000:00:02.0
PCI: Firmware left 0000:08:08.0 e100 interrupts enabled, disabling
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.0 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.0:pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.0:pcie02]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.0:pcie03]
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.2 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.2:pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.2:pcie02]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.2:pcie03]
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.3 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.3:pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.3:pcie02]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.3:pcie03]
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
loop: module loaded
input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /devices/virtual/input/input0
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBD0,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
i8042.c: Detected active multiplexing controller, rev 1.1.
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
serio: i8042 AUX0 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX1 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX2 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX3 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
Freeing unused kernel memory: 296k freed
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input1
libata version 2.21 loaded.
ahci 0000:00:1f.2: version 2.3
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[b] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
ahci 0000:00:1f.2: AHCI 0001.0100 32 slots 4 ports 1.5 Gbps 0xf impl SATA mode
ahci 0000:00:1f.2: flags: 64bit ncq pm led clo pio slum part 
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
scsi0 : ahci
scsi1 : ahci
scsi2 : ahci
scsi3 : ahci
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xf882a500 ctl 0x00000000 bmdma 0x00000000 irq 19
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xf882a580 ctl 0x00000000 bmdma 0x00000000 irq 19
ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xf882a600 ctl 0x00000000 bmdma 0x00000000 irq 19
ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xf882a680 ctl 0x00000000 bmdma 0x00000000 irq 19
ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata1.00: ATA-7: HTS541010G9SA00, MBZOC60P, max UDMA/100
ata1.00: 195371568 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0)
ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0)
scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      HTS541010G9SA00  MBZO PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: version 2.12
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.1 to 64
scsi4 : ata_piix
scsi5 : ata_piix
ata5: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x000101f0 ctl 0x000103f6 bmdma 0x00011810 irq 14
ata6: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x00010170 ctl 0x00010376 bmdma 0x00011818 irq 15
ata5.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4084N, KQ09, max MWDMA2
ata5.00: configured for MWDMA2
ata6: port disabled. ignoring.
scsi 4:0:0:0: CD-ROM            HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4084N KQ09 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 195371568 512-byte hardware sectors (100030 MB)
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 195371568 512-byte hardware sectors (100030 MB)
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
 sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 > sda3
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
sr 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.5.23-k4-NAPI
e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:08:08.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xd4100000, irq 19, MAC addr 00:16:D3:03:8D:43
iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver for Linux, 1.2.0ds
iwl3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2007 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:00.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:05:00.0 to 64
iwl3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
iwl3945: Tunable channels: 11 802.11bg, 13 802.11a channels
wmaster0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-3945-rs'
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1b.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1b.0 to 64
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
ipw3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945 Network Connection driver for Linux, 1.2.2dmpr
ipw3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
ACPI: AC Adapter [ADP1] (off-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
input: Power Button (FF) as /devices/virtual/input/input2
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
input: Lid Switch as /devices/virtual/input/input3
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID0]
input: Sleep Button (CM) as /devices/virtual/input/input4
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
input: Power Button (CM) as /devices/virtual/input/input5
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
ACPI: SSDT 3F684FB0, 023D (r1  PmRef  Cpu0Ist     3000 INTL 20050624)
ACPI: SSDT 3F684E8F, 009C (r1  PmRef  Cpu0Cst     3001 INTL 20050624)
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2] C3[C3])
ACPI: SSDT 3F6851ED, 00BD (r1  PmRef  Cpu1Ist     3000 INTL 20050624)
ACPI: SSDT 3F684F2B, 0085 (r1  PmRef  Cpu1Cst     3000 INTL 20050624)
ACPI: CPU1 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2] C3[C3])
ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZS0] (69 C)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZS1] (69 C)
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
sr 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5
Linux agpgart interface v0.102
agpgart: Detected an Intel 945GM Chipset.
agpgart: Detected 7932K stolen memory.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xc0000000
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 21, io base 0x00001820
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
intel_rng: FWH not detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[b] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 18, io base 0x00001840
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 22, io base 0x00001860
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.3[D] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.3 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: irq 23, io base 0x00001880
usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
PCI: cache line size of 32 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 21, io mem 0xd4544000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.3[b] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.2, id: 0x1a0b1, caps: 0xa04713/0x200000
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input6
input: Video Bus as /devices/virtual/input/input7
ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes  rom: no  post: no)
input: Video Bus as /devices/virtual/input/input8
ACPI: Video Device [GFX0] (multi-head: yes  rom: no  post: no)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:08:09.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[23]  MMIO=[d4101000-d41017ff]  Max Packet=[2048]  IR/IT contexts=[4/4]
sdhci: SDHCI controller found at 0000:08:09.1 [1180:0822] (rev 19)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:08:09.1[b] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
mmc0: SDHCI at 0xd4101800 irq 17 DMA
rtc_cmos 00:08: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0
rtc0: alarms up to one month, y3k
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[06e40a0001105021]
Marking TSC unstable due to: possible TSC halt in C2.
Time: hpet clocksource has been installed.
Adding 971860k swap on /dev/sda6.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:971860k
Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -499060428 ns)
atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xd9 on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e059 <keycode>' to make it known.
APIC error on CPU0: 00(40)
APIC error on CPU1: 00(40)
atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0xd9 on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e059 <keycode>' to make it known.
BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 12s! [bash:7760]

Pid: 7760, comm:                 bash
EIP: 0073:[<b7f239f0>] CPU: 1
EIP is at 0xb7f239f0
 ESP: 007b:bfdb7d30 EFLAGS: 00000216    Not tainted  (2.6.23-ARCH #1)
EAX: 00000014 EBX: b7f26bc8 ECX: bfdb7d14 EDX: bfdb7d60
ESI: 00000001 EDI: 00000014 EBP: bfdb7d78 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000
CR0: 8005003b CR2: b7f1dea0 CR3: 37b71000 CR4: 000006d0
DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400
 =======================
e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 15s! [bash:7754]

Pid: 7754, comm:                 bash
EIP: 0060:[<c03620bd>] CPU: 1
EIP is at _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0xd/0x30
 EFLAGS: 00000202    Not tainted  (2.6.23-ARCH #1)
EAX: 00000202 EBX: ffff00ff ECX: 00000202 EDX: 00000000
ESI: c180d000 EDI: c180d000 EBP: c19aa800 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8
CR0: 8005003b CR2: b7fe4000 CR3: 37d09000 CR4: 000006d0
DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400
 [<c0291be2>] hide_cursor+0x22/0x70
 [<c0294b2f>] do_con_write+0x8cf/0x19c0
 [<c0126e77>] finish_task_switch+0x27/0x80
 [<c0360064>] schedule+0x504/0x5e0
 [<c0360000>] schedule+0x4a0/0x5e0
 [<c03608db>] __mutex_lock_interruptible_slowpath+0x17b/0x340
 [<c0168930>] do_wp_page+0x3c0/0x520
 [<c0295c61>] con_write+0x11/0x30
 [<c0288ed8>] write_chan+0x188/0x350
 [<c0125e40>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x10
 [<c028675b>] tty_write+0x13b/0x1d0
 [<c0288d50>] write_chan+0x0/0x350
 [<c0286620>] tty_write+0x0/0x1d0
 [<c017ed7f>] vfs_write+0xbf/0x140
 [<c017f411>] sys_write+0x41/0x70
 [<c0104472>] sysenter_past_esp+0x6b/0xa1
 [<c0360000>] schedule+0x4a0/0x5e0
 =======================
BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 19s! [bash:7774]

Pid: 7774, comm:                 bash
EIP: 0073:[<b7ef6c9c>] CPU: 1
EIP is at 0xb7ef6c9c
 ESP: 007b:bfd77d3c EFLAGS: 00000282    Not tainted  (2.6.23-ARCH #1)
EAX: 08101938 EBX: b7f17bc8 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 08101530
ESI: 0000001e EDI: 00000000 EBP: bfd77e08 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000
CR0: 8005003b CR2: b7f21000 CR3: 37819000 CR4: 000006d0
DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400
 =======================
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
[drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20060119 on minor 0
BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 16s! [nano:7885]

Pid: 7885, comm:                 nano
EIP: 0073:[<b7facf41>] CPU: 1
EIP is at 0xb7facf41
 ESP: 007b:bf9da448 EFLAGS: 00000246    Not tainted  (2.6.23-ARCH #1)
EAX: 00000020 EBX: b7fcd42c ECX: 00000000 EDX: 0808d168
ESI: 00000000 EDI: 0000000c EBP: bf9da4c8 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000
CR0: 8005003b CR2: f8c21384 CR3: 37b49000 CR4: 000006d0
DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400
 =======================
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal:rolleyes:
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 6718141
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 6718140
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 6718139
EXT3-fs: sda1: 3 orphan inodes deleted
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.

Maybe I posted too much information...

rochus · 2007-12-27 19:12:42

ddrplayer512 wrote:

I'm not sure if I have installed the ipw3945-ucode package. Let me try to install that.

Make sure that the packages "ipw3945", "ipw3945d" and "ipw3945-ucode" are installed:

pacman -S ipw3945 ipw3945d ipw3945-ucode

If everything's installed, you should load the module and start the daemon (as stated in my last message). Maybe you just forgot something and it works now. If not...

Should I type the command "dmesg" and paste the output of the commands here?

... yes.

rochus · 2007-12-27 19:18:04

Allright I think I have the problem found in your dmesg output: You have both the iwlwifi and the ipw drivers installed. This may result in a conflict as the iwlwifi driver will be loaded earlier (as seen in your dmesg output) and the ipw somewhat later.

You might decide which driver you wish to use: the iwlwifi driver (that uses the latest mac80211 subsystem, but didn't work properly for me [having a 3945 chipset as well]) or the ipw driver.

So, remove the one you don't want to have and it should work as expected. To find out which packages are related to which driver, type into a console either

pacman -Q | grep iwl

for the iwl drivers or

pacman -Q|grep ipw

for the ipw drivers. with

pacman -R packagename

you may remove the packages, where - of course - packagename is the package's name

Last edited by rochus (2007-12-27 19:19:26)

ddrplayer512 · 2007-12-27 19:18:07

Now it said "local version is up to date, upgrade anyway?" And I said yes.

Also I notice that it says "ERROR: Could not find Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection"

Is that something that I should be concened about?

ddrplayer512 · 2007-12-27 19:20:28

So should I remove ipw or the iwlwifi driver. Wait, maybe I should use the ipw driver....

Thanks for helping me figure out the real problem.

Last edited by ddrplayer512 (2007-12-27 19:21:36)

rochus · 2007-12-27 19:20:33

the "up to date" message just means that you already have the latest available version

ddrplayer512 · 2007-12-27 19:23:37

Sorry for asking so many questions, but I use GNOME right now. Is there a way that I can use the gnome network manager instead of using the command line tools? And how do I go about doing that?

Thanks a lot for your help!

rochus · 2007-12-27 19:26:19

good question, as I use dwm - a console oriented window manager. As far as I know (by remembering the arch installation on my ex-gf's notebook) when the drivers are loaded properly and the networkmanager is started as well, everything should work automatically - but others may be more of a help than me in this point

ddrplayer512 · 2007-12-27 19:28:06

Still, I thank you very much for your help. But, now I check the ifconfig and I dont see wlan0. Should I be concerned about that?

ddrplayer512 · 2007-12-27 19:48:40

I still can't connect after all. Did I do something wrong when I used iwconfig?

ibendiben · 2007-12-27 23:46:49

You probably need to change the wireless device name from "wlan0" to "eth1" in your wireless configuration file. ipw-driver uses eth1 where iwf-driver uses wlan0...

atasmrk · 2007-12-28 11:58:38

Hello!
I had problems with ipw3945 too. I followed wiki using alternate metod.
I could scan for networks, but i couldn't connect to any of them. Then i added intel-wireless in menu.lst and it started to work.
Almost forgot... my wireless device name is eth1.

Last edited by atasmrk (2007-12-28 12:08:23)

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Can't get the ipw3945 wireless working

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