[CentOS] ipw3945 wireless not working
Stephen John Smoogen
smooge at gmail.com
Wed Mar 5 16:36:17 UTC 2008
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
> This is a new Centos 5.1 install on a HP nc2400 (that use to run XP).
> Completely clean install; blew away the XP partitions...
>
> After applying all the updates, and configuring for the rpmforge repo, I
> used yumex to install dkms and the dkms-ipw3945, ipw3945-firmware, and
> ipw3945d rpms.
>
> lsmod|grep ipw shows:
>
> ipw3945 180391 1
> ieeee80211 33417 1 ipw3945
>
> and dmesg)grep ipw shows:
>
> well a bunch of lines about the card including one with the Radio
> Frequency Kill Swithc is On
>
Check to see if the physical switch is turned on. As long as the
system thinks the Kill Switch is on it won't show up in Network
Manager. [Having spent an hour debugging this a couple of months ago.]
Basically it comes down to the first question of support: Is it
plugged in? At the moment the computer does not think so.
>
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Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
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