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Offline divadgnol67

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intel 3945abg
« on: May 12, 2009, 01:40:16 PM »
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!!!!!!

Offline jls

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Re: intel 3945abg
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2009, 03:32:29 PM »
You need the firmware
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Offline divadgnol67

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Re: intel 3945abg
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2009, 03:47:46 PM »
thanks, i know what to do from here.

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Re: intel 3945abg
« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2009, 07:02:10 PM »
ok, you know what to do, but can you describe it for all the who are in the dark like me ;-))
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Re: intel 3945abg
« Reply #4 on: June 10, 2009, 07:04:31 PM »
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Re: intel 3945abg
« Reply #5 on: June 10, 2009, 07:07:59 PM »
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Re: intel 3945abg
« Reply #6 on: June 10, 2009, 08:06:28 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

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Re: intel 3945abg
« Reply #7 on: June 11, 2009, 05:00:23 AM »
The Intel wireless firmware needs to be downloaded from Intel:
http://intellinuxwireless.org/?n=Downloads
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Re: intel 3945abg
« Reply #8 on: September 12, 2009, 02:56:41 PM »
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

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Re: intel 3945abg
« Reply #9 on: September 12, 2009, 03:58:01 PM »

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

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Re: intel 3945abg
« Reply #10 on: September 12, 2009, 04:13:23 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