[CentOS] ipw3945 wireless not working

Wed Mar 5 22:32:24 UTC 2008
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 at 4:35pm, Robert Moskowitz wrote
>
>> Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
>
>>> On F7, I did the whole config manually (I don't use any DE, so I 
>>> tend to have to do things this way) -- including editing 
>>> /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth1 to have the correct ESSID and 
>>> editing /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_wupplicant.conf with my PSK. I'm 
>>> *guessing* that would work for you.
>>
>> I copied my wpa_supplicant.conf file from my nc4010 that has an 
>> atheros card (but did not use NetworkManager). My key and everything 
>> was in the file and works perfectly on the nc4010. Not hte nc2400 
>> with the ipw3945...
>
> You may also want to have a look at /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant and 
> make sure that it is set up correctly. 
Define 'correctly' Mine has:

# wlan0 and wifi0
# INTERFACES="-iwlan0 -iwifi0"
INTERFACES="-iwlan0"
# ndiswrapper and prism
# DRIVERS="-Dndiswrapper -Dprism"
DRIVERS="-Dndiswrapper"