unable to get intel 3945 to work on my dell laptop

[pietrov]

Hi,

has anybody experience on how to make intel 3945 to work on RHEL5 ? Apparently that hardware is not officially supported by Red Hat so they do not provide drivers.

what happens on my PC is after login I do not have the wireless card led is off and when I try to start the wireless connection I get

SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

I'm not a real linux expert but I do use it since long time.

Thanks for any suggestion you can give me.

Pietro

[reed9]

The driver is included. You need the firmware.

su -
yum install iwl3945-firmware
modprobe -r iwl3945
modprobe iwl3945

This is for RHEL 5.3 or newer.

[pietrov]

Thanks reed9.

I actually solved my problem downloading rpms for ipw3945 from redhat supplementary channel and installing it.

[alf55]

Thanks reed9.

I actually solved my problem downloading rpms for ipw3945 from redhat supplementary channel and installing it.

The "ipw3945" are the drivers that replaced the older "iwl3945" drivers.

[reed9]

The "ipw3945" are the drivers that replaced the older "iwl3945" drivers.

Vice versa. iwlwifi is the newer project. ipw has been deprecated.
Intel® Wireless WiFi Link drivers for Linux*