[SOLVED] Where is 3945 firmware now?

endless_dark · 2010-07-19 17:32:03

Hello everybody, almost a year using Ubuntu and I wanted to switch back to Arch.
When I used Arch I had no problems installing wifi and that stuff.
Well, so now, I am reading the Arch wiki for mi 3945agb wireless driver and I get this conclusion:

First: install wireless-tools, done
Second: install your firmware

In this part says "Installing these firmware packages is not required since the 2.6.34 kernel update, when the firmware files were moved to the linux-firmware package"

But, when I try to ifconfig wlan0 up I get the error telling "SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory"

And if I try to install linux-firmware, pacman says that kernel26-firmware and linux-firmware are conflicting.

Aslo, hen I do dmesg | grep firmware I get a lot of error telling firmware file req failed. So I suppose that the firwmare files are missing so... Where should I get those files?

Thank You!

Last edited by endless_dark (2010-07-20 15:06:06)

Allan · 2010-07-19 18:07:27

You need to update your entire system. The kernel26-firmware will get removed and replaced by the linux-firmware.

endless_dark · 2010-07-19 18:23:29

But... it is a clean installation I did today, even I downloaded the core image today. It's already out of date?

wonder · 2010-07-19 18:27:02

endless_dark wrote:

But... it is a clean installation I did today, even I downloaded the core image today. It's already out of date?

is out of date even after one day. that's why i prefer to use net installation

endless_dark · 2010-07-19 20:33:28

I updated it, and everything seemed ok, but when I rebooted. When I try to put up the wlan0 interface I get "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132"

sand_man · 2010-07-20 00:15:38

What is the output of `rfkill list`

endless_dark · 2010-07-20 15:07:21

Allan wrote:

You need to update your entire system. The kernel26-firmware will get removed and replaced by the linux-firmware.

Forget about the unknown error, it has not happend again, that solved the first problem.
Thank You really much!:D

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#1 2010-07-19 17:32:03

[SOLVED] Where is 3945 firmware now?

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