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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Q&A Forum => Topic started by: divadgnol67 on May 12, 2009, 10:40:16 AM

Title: intel 3945abg
Post by: divadgnol67 on May 12, 2009, 10:40:16 AM

Hello All,

Great distro, been a fan of that "small" one as well. Would someone point me in the right direction to get my intel 3945 wireless adapter working in TC?

This is what i have done so far. - installed wireless tools.
iwconfig shows wlan0 but iwlist does not show any networks.
ifconfig shows wlan0 as well.
not sure if additional drivers/firmware are needed.

THIS IS THE BEST DISTRO EVER!!!!!!

Title: Re: intel 3945abg
Post by: jls on May 12, 2009, 12:32:29 PM

You need the firmware

Title: Re: intel 3945abg
Post by: divadgnol67 on May 12, 2009, 12:47:46 PM

thanks, i know what to do from here.

Title: Re: intel 3945abg
Post by: u2funker on June 10, 2009, 04:02:10 PM

ok, you know what to do, but can you describe it for all the who are in the dark like me ;-))
kind regards
Michael

Title: Re: intel 3945abg
Post by: roberts on June 10, 2009, 04:04:31 PM

Perhaps this will help: http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=1699.0

Title: Re: intel 3945abg
Post by: roberts on June 10, 2009, 04:07:59 PM

Also see: http://www.tinycorelinux.com/faq.html#firmware

Title: Re: intel 3945abg
Post by: u2funker on June 10, 2009, 05:06:28 PM

Hi Roberts,
so right know it is 2:00 am and it is not working. I downloaded and installed the firmware 2.6.29.1 and the tools,
but have no idea, how to activate it .. and i searched the forum, believe me. But without Unix knowledge, it is not so easy.. Perhaps you have a short briefing for me and i will try it tomorrow... and hopefully my wife will let me  ;)
Good night
Michael

Title: Re: intel 3945abg
Post by: curaga on June 11, 2009, 02:00:23 AM

The Intel wireless firmware needs to be downloaded from Intel:
http://intellinuxwireless.org/?n=Downloads

Title: Re: intel 3945abg
Post by: sci_fi on September 12, 2009, 11:56:41 AM

Help. I am stuck on this.  Can't get my intel 345abg card to work with Tiny Core.
I have the firmware in my /lib/firmware folder (even tried version 1 of the firmware).
I have installed the:

 firmware-2.6.29.1-tinycore.tce
wireless-2.6.29.1-tinycore.tcem
 wireless_tools.tcel

When I run, iwconfig, my wireless is correctly identified as wlan0.
When I run iwlist scanning, the system reports that wlan0 is down.
When I run ifconfig wlan0 up, I get SIOCSifflags: No such file or directory.

The  3945 card works fine on other distro's (SLAX) so I am certain it is not a hardware problem.

I must be missing something. Any ideas.

Thanks.

sci_fi

Title: Re: intel 3945abg
Post by: fladd on September 12, 2009, 12:58:01 PM

Quote from: sci_fi on September 12, 2009, 11:56:41 AM

When I run ifconfig wlan0 up, I get SIOCSifflags: No such file or directory.

This is probably because it cannot find the firmware, I had the same problem.
Do a "dmesg" and look what it says there about missing firmware.

What I did was to make a remaster and putting the firmware in /lib/firmware/. I took the newest firmware! That worked.

fladd

Title: Re: intel 3945abg
Post by: sci_fi on September 12, 2009, 01:13:23 PM

Thanks, fladd. You are correct. I did a dmesg and not finding the fw was the problem. I put the latest fw in /lib/firmware rather than in yet another subdirectory. Worked like a champ.

Thanks again. This distro is so cool I want to get it right and spread it among my friends.

Best regards,

sci_fi