Wireless networking with ipw3945ABG

[sudders]

Hi There,
I'm trying to get Tiny Core up and running on my system, which already boots happily to unbuntu and XP.

The base installed fine, but I am having trouble getting the wireless working. This is made more difficult by the fact that I have no access to a wired network.

I installed wcid and all the dependencies listed. When I start wcid it tells me that no wireless networks were found.

The card (which is an Intel PRO wireless 3945ABG) seems to be installed fine as iwconfig lists it as wlan0 and lspci lists it as:

Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)

if I try iwlist wlan0 scan

I get

wlan0: no result

and if try iwconfig wlan0 essid any

i get

Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
    SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported.

any ideas anyone? Are the drivers correctly installed? Am I missing something?

Thanks

Ian
---

[Juanito]

Did you load a module for your card?

[Arslan S.]

download iwlwifi-3945-ucode-15.32.2.9.tgz

untar archive

copy iwlwifi*.ucode to /lib/firmware or /usr/local/lib/firmware (create directory if necessary)

then

sudo ifconfig wlan0 up

that should do it

add the firmware file to your backup files list


http://intellinuxwireless.org/?n=Downloads

[sudders]

Thanks guys, worked a treat.

Any ideas which files I need to set to backup to backup my wcid configuration?

[Arslan S.]

usr/local/etc/wicd
usr/local/var/lib/wicd/configurations 

[bmarkus]

It is always good to read the info file

INSTALLATION

                Add following files to your backup:
                  /usr/local/etc/wicd
                  /usr/local/var/lib/wicd/configurations

                RUNNING

                Run 'wicd-start' as root to start wicd daemon
                You can add it to 'bootlocal.sh' or to Xfce4/LXDE startup

[sudders]

It is always good to read the info file

Oops, sorry.

Thanks for the help guys.

[sudders]

Okay, so wicd is now install, automatically starting and remembering my settings.

But it is not automatically connecting to my network (it connects fine if I load up to GUI and click 'connect'). Automatically connect to this network is selected and Automatically re-connect on disconnection is selected in the preference. The encryption on my network is WPA2.

Any ideas?

Cheers.