Hi, I have a wireless network but no wired network. I need to access the net for the necessary installation of the wireless drivers in CentOS 5.1. Could anyone let me know how i can go about it!! My card is Intel PRO/Wireless 3945
Kevin Kimani wrote:
Hi, I have a wireless network but no wired network. I need to access the net for the necessary installation of the wireless drivers in CentOS 5.1. Could anyone let me know how i can go about it!! My card is Intel PRO/Wireless 3945
Go buy a WET11 or similar piece of gear. This acts like a wireless STA to the network, and is an ethernet bridge to a wired device. I have been in a few hotels where they only provide wireless networking, and have a few WET11s for customers that can only connected via wires.
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 5:14 AM, Kevin Kimani kevinkimani@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I have a wireless network but no wired network. I need to access the net for the necessary installation of the wireless drivers in CentOS 5.1. Could anyone let me know how i can go about it!! My card is Intel PRO/Wireless 3945
The instructions on this page worked on a laptop with 3945ABG:
http://www.distrostop.org/forums/index.php/topic,5694.0.html
Note that you will need the centosplus kernel.
Akemi
Akemi Yagi wrote:
The instructions on this page worked on a laptop with 3945ABG: http://www.distrostop.org/forums/index.php/topic,5694.0.html
or here :
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless
( although I am using the kmdl from atrpms on my laptop )
- KB
Karanbir Singh <> scribbled on Thursday, August 14, 2008 2:47 PM:
Trying to learn wifi netwroking with linux, and CentOS v5.2 in particular. Following the above howto helped a bit on the way, but I'm nowhere near getting the wifi-card to connect.
I've installed madwifi, ndiswrapper, dkms and whatnot in order to get this working, but still it's a no go. Centos does see the card in Administration/Network and the wireless network thing is visible in Network manager, but when I try connect or create a new connection to my wlan it just times out or says it couldn't connect for some reason. The wlan I'm trying to connect to is WPA2-PSK using AES.
I'm using a 3Com 3CRWE154G72 IIRC, which according to the hwconf's using the prism54 driver/firmware/whatever.
Would I maybe be better off reinstalling the whole shebang and have the wifi-card inserted from start in order for the centos installer to see it properly from the beginning?
The experimental machine I use is not critical in any way. Only gotcha' is that it only has a CD-drive so I have to shuffle discs should I do a complete reinstall. 8-)
Thx in advance for any advice.
On Aug 19, 2008, at 5:04 AM, Sorin@Gmail wrote:
Would I maybe be better off reinstalling the whole shebang and have the wifi-card inserted from start in order for the centos installer to see it properly from the beginning?
before you do that, open a terminal, become root, and run /usr/sbin/ kudzu (while the wireless card is installed). that's the program that does hardware detection; it may be able to sort out your issue.
-steve
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On Aug 19, 2008, at 5:04 AM, Sorin@Gmail wrote:
Would I maybe be better off reinstalling the whole shebang and have the wifi-card inserted from start in order for the centos installer to see it properly from the beginning?
before you do that, open a terminal, become root, and run /usr/sbin/ kudzu (while the wireless card is installed). that's the program that does hardware detection; it may be able to sort out your issue.
Think I already did that, but I'll do it again to be sure and reboot between. We'll see of it works out. Thx.
Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 5:14 AM, Kevin Kimani kevinkimani@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I have a wireless network but no wired network. I need to access the net for the necessary installation of the wireless drivers in CentOS 5.1. Could anyone let me know how i can go about it!! My card is Intel PRO/Wireless 3945
The instructions on this page worked on a laptop with 3945ABG:
http://www.distrostop.org/forums/index.php/topic,5694.0.html
Note that you will need the centosplus kernel.
I have the 3945 and use dkms drivers from rpmforge. No kernel mods needed.
Install dkms from rpmforge:
dkms-2.0.20.2-2.el5.rf.noarch.rpm
and get the 3945 rpms there too:
ipw3945-firmware-1.14.2-1.nodist.rf.noarch.rpm ipw3945d-1.7.22-4.nodist.rf.i386.rpm
After installing things tend to just work. Here is my modprobe.conf lines:
alias eth1 ipw3945 install ipw3945 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ipw3945 ; sleep 0.5 ; /sbin/ipw3945d --quiet remove ipw3945 /sbin/ipw3945d --kill ;/sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove ipw3945
Don't know what that means, but.....
I thought you were just asking how to get the system connected to the net so you could get the drivers, thus my earlier recommendation on the WET11..
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 5:14 AM, Kevin Kimani kevinkimani@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I have a wireless network but no wired network. I need to access the net for the necessary installation of the wireless drivers in CentOS 5.1. Could anyone let me know how i can go about it!! My card is Intel PRO/Wireless 3945
The instructions on this page worked on a laptop with 3945ABG:
http://www.distrostop.org/forums/index.php/topic,5694.0.html
Note that you will need the centosplus kernel.
I have the 3945 and use dkms drivers from rpmforge. No kernel mods needed.
Install dkms from rpmforge:
dkms-2.0.20.2-2.el5.rf.noarch.rpm
and get the 3945 rpms there too:
ipw3945-firmware-1.14.2-1.nodist.rf.noarch.rpm ipw3945d-1.7.22-4.nodist.rf.i386.rpm
Just one comment here. Depending on the hardware, the ipw3945 module may or may not work. I tried this module on a Toshiba laptop (3945ABG) and could not get it to work. So, I went for the *iwl3945* module which is enabled in the centosplus kernel (but not in the distro kernel). This one worked just fine. [On a side note, iwl4965 is enabled in the distro kernel.]
If I read correctly what is on the intel site, *ipw* is being deprecated. Perhaps, we should ask dag to dkms'ize the iwl3945 module. By the way, ATrpms mentioned by KB seems to have the kmdl version.
Akemi
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