On 2/7/08, MOKRANI Rachid Rachid.MOKRANI@ifp.fr wrote:
Hi,
I have a laptop DELL M90 with an Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG card.
I'm using centOS 5.1 kernel 2.6.18-53 i386.
I installed ndiswrapper v 1.52 I installed the driver http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R164255.EXE The wireless-tools is v 28.2
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ndiswrapper is ok if there is no native support for the wifi card which isn't the case with the 3945 but it does seem to be working so...
Have you installed NetworkManager which should cope with the WEP encryption?
yum install NetworkManager* service NetworkManager start service NetworkManagerDispatcher start chkconfig --level 345 NetworkManager on chkconfig --level 345 NetworkManagerDispatcher on
if you reboot or restart X + service network restart then you should have a wee icon on your desktop that you can click on and enter your WEP key.
Personally i would get rid of ndiswrapper and use the dkms-ipw3945 package from Dag's repo. I never had consistent wifi access (with a broadcom card) using ndiswrapper and have had total stability using the bcm43xx/b43 in fedora 8 so would always go with the "non-hack" method. Intel seem to have particularly progressive in terms of opening up their FOSS support.
hth
mike