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Sculler
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 Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 3:05 pm Post subject: Problem autoloading ipw3945 |
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I have a ipw3945 wireless chipset and am trying to get the module for it loaded when booting. I have tried placing it in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 (both with and without ieee80211_crypto and ieee80211 before it) but when booting gentoo complains that loading ipw3945 failed. dmesg doesn't display anything suspicious that i saw and lsmod shows all 3 modules but iwconfig doesn't see the card. However, after modprobe -r'ing all the modules and then just running modprobe ipw3945 the card is recognised by iwconfig.
Am I doing something stupidly wrong here?
NB I have a working wired connection so if I need to download something to fix this that's ok.
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Dumble
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| Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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Are you sûre you have a file named ipw3945 in /etc/modules.d and it is correctly configured ?
Mine contains this :
| Quote: | options ipw3945 auto_create=0 mode=0
install ipw3945 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ipw3945 ; sleep 0.5 ; /sbin/ipw3945d --quiet
remove ipw3945 /sbin/ipw3945d --kill ; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove ipw3945
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Sculler
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| Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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After ignoring the problem of the moment and following a HOWTO on the gentoo wiki to get the card to connect and do so automatically on booting, something I did there must have fixed the problem. Anyway, through no fault of my own, it's now working! 
Thanks for the help anyway. |
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