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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have a laptop DELL M90 with an Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG card. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">After installed new rpm drivers (see below), my card is recognized and I can see my wireless acces point with (iwlist - iwconfig) but it's impossible to connect to it. It seem that I can't obtain an IP address. In the log message I have "dhclient : DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval )</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The same laptop installed in Windows XP connect imediatly to my wireless acces point. Other Windows XP laptops can connect immediatly so. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">My laptop is installed with CentOS 5.1 - kernel 2.6.18-53.el5</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Any help ?</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Best Regards.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have installed the following rpm :</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">ieee80211-kmdl-2.6.18-53.el5-1.2.18-21.el5.x86_64.rpm</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2-4.at.noarch.rpm</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">ipw3945d-1.7.22-4.at.x86_64.rpm</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.18-53.el5-1.2.0-18.4.el5.x86_64.rpm</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">ipw3945-1.2.0-18.4.el5.x86_64.rpm</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I'm using the following script in the booting process for recognizd the card.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">########################################################################################</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">#! /bin/sh</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">#</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"># Intel Pro/wireless 3945BG: ipw3945d deamon</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">#</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">#chkconfig: 35 20 86</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">#description: This is a daemon for automatically switching \</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"># ipw3945d on to get access to any AP.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">#</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"># Source function library.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">DESC="Intel PRO/Wireless 3945BG"</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">NAME=ipw3945d</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/ipw3945</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"># Hopefully exit if the package has been removed.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">test -x $SCRIPTNAME || exit 0</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"># Loads the driver and starts the regulatory daemon</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">load() {</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ipw3945</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> /sbin/ipw3945d --timeout=-1 --quiet</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">}</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"># Unloads the driver (killing the regulatory daemon)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">unload() {</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> /sbin/ipw3945d --kill 2>/dev/null</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove ipw3945</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">}</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">case "$1" in</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> start|restart)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> echo -n "Starting $DESC: $NAME"</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> unload</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> sleep 3</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> load</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> sleep 3</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> echo "."</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> ;;</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> stop)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> echo -n "Stopping $DESC: $NAME"</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> unload</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> echo "."</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> ;;</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> *)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> exit 1</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">esac</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">exit 0</FONT>
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