Trouble enabling wireless network card

[dkbtech]

Hey everyone! I've been playing around with Pendrive Linux (which is based on Debian), and have been trying to get my wireless network card to work (which is an intel pro/Wireless 3945ABG). I believe I have downloaded and installed the card correctly, but when I go to the network manager applet in Gnome its not showing up (nor is the card showing up when I go to administration/networking).

lspci:

0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02).

ifconfig -a

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:C5:AA:2A : D1
inet addr:192.168.1.148 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::215:c5ff:feaa:2ad1/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4564 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2817 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2799894 (2.6 MiB) TX bytes:518735 (506.5 KiB)
Interrupt:177

eth1 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 38-4F-C0-00-13-C3-C9-41-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:580 (580.0 b) TX bytes:580 (580.0 b)

sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

If anyone needs more information, just let me know. FYI, I followed the directions to install the drivers that were given here:

How to install Intel PRO ipw3945 wireless drivers in Debian | USB Pen Drive Linux

Thanks in advance to anyone that offers help.

[zonker66]

hmm. I dont have this card, but my distro's manual (sidux=debian sid)says this about getting it to work:

ipw3945
For this adapter you have to install a firmware as well:

apt-get update
apt-get install firmware-iwlwifi 


Please remove firmware-ipw3945, ipw3945d and iwlwifi-3945-ucode if already installed:

apt-get remove --purge firmware-ipw3945 ipw3945d iwlwifi-3945-ucode



Now just reload iwl3945:

modprobe -r iwl3945
modprobe iwl3945

[dkbtech]

Unfortunatly, when I tried to get firmware-iwlwifi, I received a "couldn't find package" error.

[zonker66]

its in debian/non-free
But only in debian unstable and testing. So i guess youre using debian stable.

[dkbtech]

Alright, I did manage to install the new firmware, and remove the other packages. However, when I use modprobe I get the following message:

modprobe -r iwl3945
FATAL: Module iwl3945 not found.

As I was exploring, I came across something about having the kernel sources installed...do I need them installed to do this?

[coopstah13]

you should only need the kernel headers for your kernel when you compile a module for it

[dkbtech]

Alright..I'm a complete noob when it comes to linux, so can you go over that one more time