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Whatever I do, I cannot get my Intel 3945A/B/G Wireless Card working. I have installed the ipw3945-modules-2.6.18-6-686 package for my kernel. Rebooted the laptop. Now, I looked at iwconfig, and ...
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    (Debian 4.0r5 - Etch) No Wireless for Intel 3945ABG connection

    Whatever I do, I cannot get my Intel 3945A/B/G Wireless Card working.

    I have installed the ipw3945-modules-2.6.18-6-686 package for my kernel. Rebooted the laptop. Now, I looked at iwconfig, and it seems it hasn't loaded the driver. I loaded it using modprobe like so: "modprobe ipw3945" and I got the following:

    FATAL: Error inserting ipw3945 (/lib/modules/2.6.18-6-686/contrib/ipw3945/ipw3945.ko): Unknown symbol in module or unknown parameter (see dmesg).

    Alright, so I did the command 'dmesg'. Here's the wireless errors part of the log:

    Quote Originally Posted by Log
    ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encodeext
    ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encode
    ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encode
    ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_txb_free
    ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encodeext
    ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan
    ipw3945: Unknown symbol escape_essid
    ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_freq_to_channel
    ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_set_geo
    ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx
    ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_channel
    ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_channel_to_index
    ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt
    ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_geo
    ipw3945: Unknown symbol free_ieee80211
    ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_tx_frame
    ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_is_valid_channel
    ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_channel_flags
    ipw3945: Unknown symbol alloc_ieee80211
    Any ideas of what I need to do/install? It's just a pain having no wifi on my laptop. Thanks in advance.

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    You have to modprobe the ieee80211_crypt_tkip module or whatever it's called in Debian. Maybe it's already on your system, or else try searching which package it's in.

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