Help setting Up Wireless on my HP Compaq 6710b

**samuraijack** · 04-07-2009

Hi linux gurus,

I've been browsing the web for steps regarding setting up the wireless on my laptop, but I think an intel driver needs to be installed first. Which I have no clue howto do. Also there is mention of updating the kernel??

Here are the outputs of the suggestion commands:

Code:

uname -r
 
2.6.9-42.ELsmp

lspci -nn

00:00.0 Class 0600: 8086:2a00 (rev 0c)
00:02.0 Class 0300: 8086:2a02 (rev 0c)
00:02.1 Class 0380: 8086:2a03 (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 Class 0c03: 8086:2834 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 Class 0c03: 8086:2835 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 Class 0c03: 8086:283a (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Class 0403: 8086:284b (rev 03)
00:1c.0 Class 0604: 8086:283f (rev 03)
00:1c.1 Class 0604: 8086:2841 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 Class 0604: 8086:2843 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 Class 0604: 8086:2847 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 Class 0c03: 8086:2830 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 Class 0c03: 8086:2831 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 Class 0c03: 8086:2832 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 Class 0c03: 8086:2836 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 Class 0604: 8086:2448 (rev f3)
00:1f.0 Class 0601: 8086:2815 (rev 03)
00:1f.2 Class 0101: 8086:2828 (rev 03)
02:04.0 Class 0607: 1180:0476 (rev b6)
02:04.1 Class 0c00: 1180:0832 (rev 02)
10:00.0 Class 0280: 8086:4222 (rev 02)
18:00.0 Class 0200: 14e4:1693 (rev 02)

Code:

lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by
nls_utf8                6081  1 
sr_mod                 20709  1 
vfat                   16961  2 
fat                    44001  1 vfat
usb_storage            62217  3 
parport_pc             27905  1 
lp                     15405  0 
parport                37641  2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4                22725  0 
i2c_dev                14273  0 
i2c_core               25921  1 i2c_dev
sunrpc                143397  1 
ds                     21189  2 
dm_mirror              31645  0 
dm_mod                 60357  1 dm_mirror
button                 10449  0 
battery                12869  0 
ac                      8773  0 
md5                     8001  1 
ipv6                  241761  10 
hci_usb                17089  0 
bluetooth              47685  1 hci_usb
yenta_socket           22721  0 
pcmcia_core            66681  2 ds,yenta_socket
uhci_hcd               32729  0 
ehci_hcd               32069  0 
hw_random               9557  0 
snd_azx                21585  2 
snd_hda_codec         121281  1 snd_azx
snd_pcm_oss            52345  0 
snd_mixer_oss          21825  2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                91973  3 snd_azx,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              27973  1 snd_pcm
snd                    56997  8 snd_azx,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore              12961  2 snd
snd_page_alloc         13641  2 snd_azx,snd_pcm
tg3                   100933  0 
ext3                  118729  2 
jbd                    59609  1 ext3
ata_piix               15557  0 
libata                 67613  1 ata_piix
sd_mod                 20545  3 
scsi_mod              117709  4 sr_mod,usb_storage,libata,sd_mod

Code:

dmesg

Linux version 2.6.9-42.ELsmp (bhcompile@hs20-bc1-1.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-2)) #1 SMP Wed Jul 12 23:27:17 EDT 2006
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003f7b0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000003f7b0000 - 000000003f7c5400 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 000000003f7c5400 - 000000003f7e7fb8 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 000000003f7e7fb8 - 0000000040000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fed20000 - 00000000fed9a000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000feda0000 - 00000000fedc0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 00000000ffc00000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
119MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.
NX (Execute Disable) protection: active
On node 0 totalpages: 260016
  DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
  Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:16
  HighMem zone: 30640 pages, LIFO batch:7
DMI 2.4 present.
Using APIC driver default
ACPI: RSDP (v002 HP                                    ) @ 0x000fc600
ACPI: XSDT (v001 HPQOEM SLIC-MPC 0x00000001 HP   0x00000001) @ 0x3f7c81c8
ACPI: FADT (v004 HP     30C0     0x00000003 HP   0x00000001) @ 0x3f7c8084
ACPI: SLIC (v001 HPQOEM SLIC-MPC 0x00000001 HP   0x00000001) @ 0x3f7c8244
ACPI: HPET (v001 HP     30C0     0x00000001 HP   0x00000001) @ 0x3f7c83bc
ACPI: MADT (v001 HP     30C0     0x00000001 HP   0x00000001) @ 0x3f7c83f4
ACPI: MCFG (v001 HP     30C0     0x00000001 HP   0x00000001) @ 0x3f7c845c
ACPI: TCPA (v002 HP     30C0     0x00000001 HP   0x00000001) @ 0x3f7c8498
ACPI: SSDT (v001 HP       HPQNLP 0x00000001 MSFT 0x03000001) @ 0x3f7db0dc
ACPI: SSDT (v001 HP       HPQPAT 0x00000001 MSFT 0x03000001) @ 0x3f7db135
ACPI: SSDT (v001 HP      Cpu0Tst 0x00003000 INTL 0x20060317) @ 0x3f7dbce5
ACPI: SSDT (v001 HP      Cpu1Tst 0x00003000 INTL 0x20060317) @ 0x3f7dbf44
ACPI: SSDT (v001 HP        CpuPm 0x00003000 INTL 0x20060317) @ 0x3f7dbfea
ACPI: DSDT (v001 HP       nc75xx 0x00010000 MSFT 0x03000001) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 6:15 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
Processor #1 6:15 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x02] high edge lint[0x1])
Enabling APIC mode:  Flat.  Using 0 I/O APICs
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x01] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 1 already used, trying 2
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
ACPI: HPET id: 0x8086a201 base: 0xfed00000
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Allocating PCI resources starting at 50000000 (gap: 40000000:bec00000)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
Initializing CPU#0
CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c03ee000 soft=c03ce000
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes)
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 1025164k/1040064k available (1876k kernel code, 14120k reserved, 759k data, 184k init, 122560k highmem)
Using HPET for base-timer
Using HPET for gettimeofday
Detected 1995.013 MHz processor.
Using hpet for high-res timesource
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3994.55 BogoMIPS (lpj=1997275)
Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux:  Initializing.
SELinux:  Starting in permissive mode
There is already a security framework initialized, register_security failed.
selinux_register_security:  Registering secondary module capability
Capability LSM initialized as secondary
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps:  bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000
monitor/mwait feature present.
using mwait in idle threads.
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 4096K
CPU0: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU0: Processor Core ID: 0
CPU0: Initial APIC ID: 0
CPU: After all inits, caps:        bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000040
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T7300  @ 2.00GHz stepping 0b
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 5550.35 usecs.
task migration cache decay timeout: 6 msecs.
Booting processor 1/1 eip 3000
CPU 1 irqstacks, hard=c03ef000 soft=c03cf000
Initializing CPU#1
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3989.99 BogoMIPS (lpj=1994998)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps:  bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000
monitor/mwait feature present.
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 4096K
CPU1: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU1: Processor Core ID: 1
CPU1: Initial APIC ID: 1
CPU: After all inits, caps:        bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000040
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
CPU1: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T7300  @ 2.00GHz stepping 0b
Total of 2 processors activated (7984.54 BogoMIPS).
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=-1
checking TSC synchronization across 2 CPUs: passed.
Brought up 2 CPUs
zapping low mappings.
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 482k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0322, last bus=40
PCI: Using MMCONFIG
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040816
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [C003] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.2
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.C003._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.C003.C0B0._PRT]
ACPI: Embedded Controller [C006] (gpe 22)
ACPI: Power Resource [C27F] (on)
ACPI: Power Resource [C29B] (on)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.C003.C11D._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.C003.C131._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.C003.C132._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.C003.C134._PRT]
ACPI: Power Resource [C1C5] (off)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C12D] (IRQs 10 11) *5
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C12E] (IRQs *10 11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C12F] (IRQs 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C130] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C140] (IRQs *10 11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C141] (IRQs *10 11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C142] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: Power Resource [C3B7] (off)
ACPI: Power Resource [C3B8] (off)
ACPI: Power Resource [C3B9] (off)
ACPI: Power Resource [C3BA] (off)
ACPI: Power Resource [C3BB] (off)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1a.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1a.1[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1a.7[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1b.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1c.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1c.1[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1c.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1c.4[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:10:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:18:00.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:04.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:04.1[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
apm: BIOS not found.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1239107105.016:1): initialized
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
SELinux:  Registering netfilter hooks
Initializing Cryptographic API
ksign: Installing public key data
Loading keyring
- Added public key 8301CD821788A86B
- User ID: Red Hat, Inc. (Kernel Module GPG key)
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
ACPI: Fan [C3BC] (off)
ACPI: Fan [C3BD] (off)
ACPI: Fan [C3BE] (off)
ACPI: Fan [C3BF] (off)
ACPI: Fan [C3C0] (off)
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1, 8 throttling states)
ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports C1, 8 throttling states)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZ0] (55 C)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZ1] (56 C)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZ3] (42 C)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZ4] (27 C)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZ5] (75 C)
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
i8042.c: Detected active multiplexing controller, rev 1.1.
serio: i8042 AUX0 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX1 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX2 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX3 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device lo
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: TOSHIBA MK1637GSX, ATA DISK drive
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: Optiarc DVD RW AD-7560A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Probing IDE interface ide2...
Probing IDE interface ide3...
Probing IDE interface ide4...
Probing IDE interface ide5...
Using cfq io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 1024KiB
hda: 312581808 sectors (160041 MB), CHS=19457/255/63
hda: cache flushes supported
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 >
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1
 Firmware: 6.2
 Sensor: 37
 new absolute packet format
 Touchpad has extended capability bits
 -> multifinger detection
 -> palm detection
 -> pass-through port
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio4
serio: Synaptics pass-through port at isa0060/serio4/input0
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1572864 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 131072)
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S4bios S5)
ACPI wakeup devices: 
C0B0 C108 C10F C110 C111 C119 C11A C11B C131 C2A1 C132 C137 C134 C2A2 
Freeing unused kernel memory: 184k freed
SCSI subsystem initialized
libata version 1.20 loaded.
ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: version 1.05
ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: MAP [ P0 P2 IDE IDE ]
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
ata: 0x1f0 IDE port busy
ata: 0x170 IDE port busy
ata_piix: probe of 0000:00:1f.2 failed with error -16
EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: hda3: orphan cleanup on readonly fs
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 2115440
EXT3-fs: hda3: 1 orphan inode deleted
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
security:  3 users, 4 roles, 355 types, 26 bools
security:  55 classes, 22582 rules
SELinux:  Completing initialization.
SELinux:  Setting up existing superblocks.
SELinux: initialized (dev hda3, type ext3), uses xattr
SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev selinuxfs, type selinuxfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev mqueue, type mqueue), not configured for labeling
SELinux: initialized (dev hugetlbfs, type hugetlbfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev devpts, type devpts), uses transition SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev eventpollfs, type eventpollfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev pipefs, type pipefs), uses task SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev futexfs, type futexfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev sockfs, type sockfs), uses task SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev proc, type proc), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev bdev, type bdev), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev rootfs, type rootfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev sysfs, type sysfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev usbfs, type usbfs), uses genfs_contexts
inserting floppy driver for 2.6.9-42.ELsmp
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
tg3.c:v3.52-rh (Mar 06, 2006)
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:18:00.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:18:00.0 to 64
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: Tigon3 [partno(none) rev b002 PHY(5787)] (PCI Express) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:1a:4b:83:70:08
eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[0] Split[0] WireSpeed[1] TSOcap[1] 
eth0: dma_rwctrl[76180000]
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1b.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1b.0 to 64
hw_random hardware driver 1.0.0 loaded
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1a.7[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: EHCI Host Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1a.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: irq 185, pci mem f8940000
SELinux: initialized (dev usbdevfs, type usbdevfs), uses genfs_contexts
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
PCI: cache line size of 32 is not supported by device 0000:00:1a.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2004-May-10
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 193, pci mem f8942000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
PCI: cache line size of 32 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2004-May-10
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1a.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.0: UHCI Host Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1a.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.0: irq 169, io base 00004020
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1a.1[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.1: UHCI Host Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1a.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.1: irq 177, io base 00004040
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 193, io base 00004060
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 201, io base 00004080
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 6
hub 6-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 6-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 185, io base 000040a0
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 7
hub 7-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 7-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
Linux Kernel Card Services
  options:  [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:04.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:02:04.0 [103c:30c0]
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x04b8, PCI irq 169
Socket status: 30000006
usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using address 2
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
Bluetooth: Core ver 2.6
NET: Registered protocol family 31
Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: HCI USB driver ver 2.7
usbcore: registered new driver hci_usb
usb 5-2: new full speed USB device using address 2
SELinux: initialized (dev ramfs, type ramfs), uses genfs_contexts
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c0344160(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device sit0
mtrr: no more MTRRs available
ACPI: AC Adapter [C239] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [C23B] (battery present)
ACPI: Battery Slot [C23A] (battery absent)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [C2BF]
ACPI: Lid Switch [C153]
EXT3 FS on hda3, internal journal
device-mapper: 4.5.0-ioctl (2005-10-04) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: packet command error: error=0x54
ide: failed opcode was 100
cdrom: open failed.
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
SELinux: initialized (dev hda2, type ext3), uses xattr
SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
Adding 2032180k swap on /dev/hda5.  Priority:-1 extents:1
SELinux: initialized (dev binfmt_misc, type binfmt_misc), uses genfs_contexts
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14 <tigran@veritas.com>
microcode: No new microdata for cpu 0
microcode: No new microdata for cpu 1
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver v1.14 unregistered
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: excluding 0xcf8-0xcff
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
MSI INIT SUCCESS
SELinux: initialized (dev rpc_pipefs, type rpc_pipefs), uses genfs_contexts
i2c /dev entries driver
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
mtrr: no more MTRRs available
usb 2-3: new high speed USB device using address 3
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
  Vendor: SAMSUNG   Model: HD501LJ           Rev:     
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sda: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB)
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB)
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
 sda: sda1 < sda5 sda6 sda7 >
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
USB Mass Storage device found at 3
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
SELinux: initialized (dev sda5, type vfat), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev sda6, type vfat), uses genfs_contexts
usb 7-1: new full speed USB device using address 2
usb 7-1: device not accepting address 2, error -71
usb 7-1: new full speed USB device using address 3
scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
  Vendor: HUAWEI    Model: Mass Storage      Rev: 2.31
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
USB Mass Storage device found at 3
sr0: scsi-1 drive
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Device not ready.  Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
Device sr0 not ready.
Device not ready.  Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
Device not ready.  Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
Device not ready.  Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
Device not ready.  Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISOFS: changing to secondary root
SELinux: initialized (dev sr0, type iso9660), uses genfs_contexts
usb 7-1: USB disconnect, address 3
scsi1 (0:0): rejecting I/O to dead device
SCSI error: host 1 id 0 lun 0 return code = 4000000
	Sense class 0, sense error 0, extended sense 0
scsi1 (0:0): rejecting I/O to dead device
sr0: CDROM (ioctl) error, command: Xpwrite, Read disk info 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 
sr: old sense key No Sense
Non-extended sense class 0 code 0x0
usb 7-1: new full speed USB device using address 4
scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
  Vendor: HUAWEI    Model: Mass Storage      Rev: 2.31
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
sr0: scsi-1 drive
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
USB Mass Storage device found at 4
Device not ready.  Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
Device sr0 not ready.
Device not ready.  Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
Device not ready.  Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
Device not ready.  Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
Device not ready.  Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISOFS: changing to secondary root
SELinux: initialized (dev sr0, type iso9660), uses genfs_contexts
usb 7-1: USB disconnect, address 4
scsi2 (0:0): rejecting I/O to dead device
SCSI error: host 2 id 0 lun 0 return code = 4000000
	Sense class 0, sense error 0, extended sense 0
scsi2 (0:0): rejecting I/O to dead device
sr0: CDROM (ioctl) error, command: Xpwrite, Read disk info 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 
sr: old sense key No Sense
Non-extended sense class 0 code 0x0

Thanks!

**reed9** · 04-07-2009

For some reason lspci -nn didn't print the information we're looking for. Try lspci -v. When you post the output of these commands, please wrap it in code tags. If you go into advanced mode, you can highlight the text and select the little # symbol.

**samuraijack** · 04-07-2009

Thanks, you are right...here is the output.

I have mentioned that I havent clue what to do...

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 30c0
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
	Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 30c0
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 169
	Memory at e4600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
	Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	I/O ports at 4000 [size=8]
	Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
	Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 3

00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 30c0
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
	Memory at e4700000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
	Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 3

00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 30c0
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 169
	I/O ports at 4020 [size=32]

00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #5 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 30c0
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 177
	I/O ports at 4040 [size=32]

00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI #2 (rev 03) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 30c0
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 185
	Memory at e4800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
	Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
	Capabilities: [58] Debug port

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 30c0
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 169
	Memory at e4804000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
	Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
	Capabilities: [70] Express Unknown type IRQ 0
	Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
	Capabilities: [130] Unknown (5)

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=08, subordinate=08, sec-latency=0
	Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot-) IRQ 0
	Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
	Capabilities: [90] #0d [0000]
	Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2
	Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
	Capabilities: [180] Unknown (5)

00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=10, subordinate=10, sec-latency=0
	Memory behind bridge: e4100000-e41fffff
	Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+) IRQ 0
	Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
	Capabilities: [90] #0d [0000]
	Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2
	Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
	Capabilities: [180] Unknown (5)

00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=18, subordinate=18, sec-latency=0
	Memory behind bridge: e4000000-e40fffff
	Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+) IRQ 0
	Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
	Capabilities: [90] #0d [0000]
	Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2
	Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
	Capabilities: [180] Unknown (5)

00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=28, subordinate=28, sec-latency=0
	I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00003fff
	Memory behind bridge: e0000000-e3ffffff
	Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+) IRQ 0
	Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
	Capabilities: [90] #0d [0000]
	Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2
	Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
	Capabilities: [180] Unknown (5)

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 30c0
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 193
	I/O ports at 4060 [size=32]

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 30c0
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 201
	I/O ports at 4080 [size=32]

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 30c0
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 185
	I/O ports at 40a0 [size=32]

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI #1 (rev 03) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 30c0
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 193
	Memory at e4808000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
	Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
	Capabilities: [58] Debug port

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=03, sec-latency=32
	Memory behind bridge: e4200000-e45fffff
	Capabilities: [50] #0d [0000]

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 30c0
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
	Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information

00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation Mobile SATA IDE Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 80 [Master])
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 30c0
	Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 177
	I/O ports at <unassigned>
	I/O ports at <unassigned>
	I/O ports at <unassigned>
	I/O ports at <unassigned>
	I/O ports at 40c0 [size=16]
	I/O ports at 40d0 [size=16]
	Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3

02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b6)
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 30c0
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 169
	Memory at e4200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=06, sec-latency=176
	Memory window 0: 50000000-503ff000 (prefetchable)
	Memory window 1: 50400000-507ff000
	I/O window 0: 00004400-000044ff
	I/O window 1: 00004800-000048ff
	16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

02:04.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd: Unknown device 0832 (rev 02) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 30c0
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 177
	Memory at e4201000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
	Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

10:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 135c
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 177
	Memory at e4100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 2
	Capabilities: [d0] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
	Capabilities: [e0] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0
	Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
	Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number 45-3e-40-ff-ff-bf-1c-00

18:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 30c0
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 185
	Memory at e4000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
	Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 3
	Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data
	Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information
	Capabilities: [e8] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
	Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint IRQ 0
	Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
	Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel
	Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 08-70-83-fe-ff-4b-1a-00
	Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting

**reed9** · 04-07-2009

10:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)

This is your wireless card, and it's pretty well supported in linux. I have the same card in my laptop. I realize I don't know what distro you're running though. From the output of uname, I'm guessing you have CentOS. Is this correct? Working on that assumptions, look here: How To Install Intel Pro Wireless 3945 On CentOS Linux | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

CentOS is probably not the most newbie friendly distro out there. Any particular reason you're using it? It's basically Red Hat Enterprise debranded. If you're looking for a general desktop solution, there are probably better options. Any recent release of Fedora, Ubuntu, openSuse, etc. have this card working out of the box. (Some, like Debian, require the firmware to be installed specifically, but the driver is available in all the modern kernels.)

**samuraijack** · 04-07-2009

Im using RHEL 4.

Would the howto for CentOs work for the Redhat as well?

Thanks

**reed9** · 04-07-2009

Yup, it should. CentOS and Red Hat are essentially identical. Though the how to is for a more recent version. It probably will work fine, still.

**samuraijack** · 04-07-2009

Thanks. But before I try it...just a question regarding

"yum install ipw3945d ipw3945-firmware dkms dkms-ipw3945 wpa_supplicant"
"yum install wpa_gui"
"yum install wpa_supplicant-gui"

I'm using wireless internet using windows, so I dont have any internet connection with linux...can I manually download this?

I downloaded this firmware http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/iw...e-2.14.1.5.tgz not sure if its the same...if not could you point to a manual download link other than using yum?

**reed9** · 04-07-2009

I believe you can find all the packages for download here: https://rpmrepo.org/RPMforge. You can download them to a usb drive or whatnot and transfer to your linux box. To install, you need to use the rpm tool. rpm

Note that the packages beginning with iwlwifi-3945-ucode is the newer firmware. For Red Hat 4, you need the ipw-* packages, as listed in the how to.

I gotta ask, is there a reason you're stuck with Red Hat 4? I really recommend upgrading to a newer distro.

**samuraijack** · 04-07-2009

Thanks alot for your help.

I will attempt your advice, but I'm currently running an application which is compatible with RHEL4.

**reed9** · 04-07-2009

What application? Seems unlikely that it can only run on RH4.

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