kubuntu9.10 and Intel Pro Wireless 3945 ABG Air Card

[hearson]

Running kubuntu 9.10 on a Dell Precision M90 laptop.
Everything works but the wifi.
It is a Intel Pro Wireless 3945 ABG Card
Is there a plug in PCMCIA AIR Card I could use ?
I am a new user

[vinnywright]

Re: kubuntu9.10 and Intel Pro Wireless 3945 ABG Air Card

post the output of

lspci

and

ifconfig -a

and

iwconfig

to start with

and describe how you went about trying to connect to an AP (the wireless router)

VINNY

[GreyGeek]

Re: kubuntu9.10 and Intel Pro Wireless 3945 ABG Air Card

Does
lsmod
show the iwl3945 module, along with mac80211, iwlcore, led-class and cfg80211, on which it depends?

[hearson]

Re: kubuntu9.10 and Intel Pro Wireless 3945 ABG Air Card

not sure how to pull up ismod

[hearson]

Intel Pro Wireless ABG adapter

I need the iw13495 driver for my wireless adapter.
Anyone have a link ?

[StarWolf]

Re: Intel Pro Wireless ABG adapter

have you tried http://madwifi.org/

yet?

[GreyGeek]

Re: kubuntu9.10 and Intel Pro Wireless 3945 ABG Air Card

KGear --> System --> Konsole

lsmod

and search the list, or

lsmod | grep 80211

[GreyGeek]

Re: Intel Pro Wireless ABG adapter

@hearson
Please refrain from opening more than one post on the same topic.

The driver for you card is the iwl3945.ko

jerry@sonyvgnfw140e:~$ locate iwl3945.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-22-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-23-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-24-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-25-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-26-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945.ko
jerry@sonyvgnfw140e:~$

In the other thread I gave instructions to determine if Upstart is loading the iwl3945 module for your wifi card. IF you didn't find the iwl3945 driver listed in the active modules shown by lsmod, then you can run
sudo modprobe iwl3945
to load it. Then check to see if your wifi is active:
ifconfig
(is something other than eth0 and lo listed? Like wlan0, or ath0, etc...)
iwlist scanning
(to see if it can pick up access points, or not)
If you see something about the wifi being "disabled" you'll need to activate the device.
sudo ifconfig wlan0 up

[Snowhog]

Re: kubuntu9.10 and Intel Pro Wireless 3945 ABG Air Card

Topics merged.

[hearson]

Re: kubuntu9.10 and Intel Pro Wireless 3945 ABG Air Card

WiFi is working
Thanks to everyone

[Snowhog]

Re: kubuntu9.10 and Intel Pro Wireless 3945 ABG Air Card

Glad to hear, but, you haven't told us what or how you got it working. Asking for help comes with a small price, and that is to provide feedback to the Forum when a solution is realized. This is how we help others.

[hearson]

Re: kubuntu9.10 and Intel Pro Wireless 3945 ABG Air Card

I opened konsole, typed: sudo modprobe iwl3945
Hit enter and google loaded in Mozilla.
Then I went to network hit add and entered my network SSID, connect auto.
The driver must have been in the distribution all along.
I could not have done it without everyone's help.
Thank you all.

[Snowhog]

Re: kubuntu9.10 and Intel Pro Wireless 3945 ABG Air Card

[GreyGeek]

Re: kubuntu9.10 and Intel Pro Wireless 3945 ABG Air Card

I opened konsole, typed: sudo modprobe iwl3945
Hit enter and google loaded in Mozilla.

You loaded Google with Mozilla (FireFox?) BEFORE you set up your wifi?
Was an ethernet cable plugged in?

Then I went to network hit add and entered my network SSID, connect auto.
The driver must have been in the distribution all along.
I could not have done it without everyone's help.
Thank you all.

[hearson]

Re: kubuntu9.10 and Intel Pro Wireless 3945 ABG Air Card

Mozilla was running, but could not find server, When I hit enter it started working.