Problem with Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945ABG with Business Ed

[fede]

Hello Everybody,
super mega ultra great compliments for these release.
Really excellent, and for an italian like me i'ts really greath to know that this is an Italian Job

Now, let's come to my problem.
I've got a Toshiba Tecra A7 with this wifi hardware:
Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945ABG

I tried the "live DVDs" for Standard Edition and Business Edition
Everything works fine with the Standard Edition, but Wifi doesn't work with the Business Edition.
I check the pkg list and i've emerged the missed packages into Business Edition with no results.

i'm going to insall Sabayon (and say bye bye to debian after many years!!!) in my office laptop, and i'm deciding which one....

Tnx!!
Bye, FF

[Dark_MaGe]

wrong move...ipw3945 is already inside the kernel, so if you have problems post a dmesg and we'll see...also an iwconfig would suit

[fede]

Hi, Thank for your post

this is my dmesg output
[...]

[ 90.580604] iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver for Linux, 0.0.25k
[ 90.580608] iwl3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2007 Intel Corporation
[ 90.580760] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:00.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[ 90.580775] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:05:00.0 to 64
[ 90.580794] iwl3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
[ 90.580863] Device driver 0000:05:00.0 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.
[ 90.585744] iwl3945: iwlwifi-3945.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
[ 90.585748] iwl3945: Could not read microcode: -2
[ 90.586079] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:05:00.0 disabled
[ 90.586088] iwl3945: probe of 0000:05:00.0 failed with error -2
[ 90.970928] cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: clean.
[ 90.972901] cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: excluding 0x400-0x407 0x4d0-0x4d7
[ 90.973706] cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean.
[ 90.974384] cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcf7: clean.
[ 90.975226] cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
[ 143.903863] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 143.903965] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions


[...]


in my iwconfig output i don't see eth1, the wireless one

lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.


thank you.
FF

[fede]

an update

now in my dmesg i found this:

[ 33.479640] iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver for Linux, 0.0.25k
[ 33.479644] iwl3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2007 Intel Corporation
[ 33.479795] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:00.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[ 33.479810] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:05:00.0 to 64
[ 33.479828] iwl3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
[ 33.479897] Device driver 0000:05:00.0 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.
[ 33.512659] iwl3945: iwlwifi-3945.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
[ 33.512665] iwl3945: Could not read microcode: -2
[ 33.512996] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:05:00.0 disabled
[ 33.513005] iwl3945: probe of 0000:05:00.0 failed with error -2
[ 33.521587] ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
[ 33.523325] ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
[ 33.523328] ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
[ 33.573869] ipw3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945 Network Connection driver for Linux, 1.2.0dmpr
[ 33.573873] ipw3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
[ 33.574037] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:00.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[ 33.574058] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:05:00.0 to 64
[ 33.574137] ipw3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
[ 33.574161] Device driver 0000:05:00.0 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.


as you can see there are both reference to ipw3945 and iwl3945... but now i've installed only the packages ipw3945...

how can i remove iwl3945...?, if it shoul be the problem...

iwconfig stil give me no wireless, and /etc/init.d/net.wlan0
give me no hardware....

Thank you, Federico

[Dark_MaGe]

post your lsmod

[fede]

post your lsmod

here is it:

Module Size Used by
bluetooth 51556 0
ipv6 261700 12
snd_seq_dummy 4868 0
snd_seq_oss 30592 0
snd_seq_midi_event 7936 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 47472 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 8844 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
ipw3945 192420 0
ieee80211 32712 1 ipw3945
ieee80211_crypt 6912 1 ieee80211
iwl3945 79076 0
mac80211 143112 1 iwl3945
fglrx 684524 18
irda 115768 0
crc_ccitt 3200 1 irda
pcmcia 38316 0
rtc_cmos 8992 0
sdhci 17676 0
tifm_7xx1 8448 0
tifm_core 11396 1 tifm_7xx1
mmc_core 27140 1 sdhci
yenta_socket 25996 1
rsrc_nonstatic 13184 1 yenta_socket
snd_hda_intel 239768 4
serio_raw 7812 0
i2c_i801 9360 0
i2c_core 24832 1 i2c_i801
intel_agp 24340 0
shpchp 32276 0
pci_hotplug 14984 1 shpchp
iTCO_wdt 11684 0
iTCO_vendor_support 4868 1 iTCO_wdt
joydev 10688 0
tg3 101380 0
e1000 112576 0
scsi_wait_scan 2432 0
sl811_hcd 12800 0
uhci_hcd 23824 0
ehci_hcd 32140 0

i tried to modprobe -r iwl3945. after this there is no the lines

iwl3945 79076 0
mac80211 143112 1 iwl3945

but i cant' see my hardware with iwconfig or a start of the eth1

thank you for your help.

FF

[Dark_MaGe]

here we go...

Code: Select all

rmmod iwl3945 && rmmod ipw3945 && modprobe ipw3945 && echo "iwl3945" >> /etc/modules.d/blacklist

this should solve your problem permanently!!!! if not look for iwl3945.ko and delete it

[adewolf]

There is no ipw3945 module.

[Dark_MaGe]

There is no ipw3945 module.

adewolf I asked him to post his lsmod to see if it was there and if you look carefully it's there...post your lsmod too

[adewolf]

I tried:
modprobe ipw3945
and got:
"FATAL: Module ipw3945 not found"

Then I did:
find /lib -name \*3945\*
and got:
/lib/modules/2.6.22-sabayon/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211/iwlwifi/iwl3945.ko
/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3945.ucode
/lib/firmware/LICENSE.wilwifi-3945-ucode
/lib/firmware/ipw3945.ucode

I also did:
lsmod|grep 3945
and got:
iwl3945 78212 0
mac80211 142120 1 iwl3945

Alex