iw3945 wireless card supported? (Intel PRO/Wireless 3945abg)

Offler · n00b Joined: 12 Jun 2004 Posts: 58

Hello all,

I was wondering if anyone could tell me if the above mentioned wireless card was supported by a minimal install of Gentoo. I have some flakyness with it when using Ubunutu therefore I'm skeptical that it will work using the Gentoo CDs but I'd be happy to be corrected

Master Shake · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 6:39 pm Post subject:

In portage I use the ipw3945 drivers. They work flawlessly for me. Also you can try the beta iwlwifi drivers. But if you have any issues let me know and I'll help you out.
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64-bit gentoo linux
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P35 Chipset
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Gentoo Bob · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 6:44 pm Post subject: RE: your answer

The minimal install CD does not support it. The only thing the minimal install CD is used for is to install your Gentoo system locally. Once you've installed Gentoo on your system and your ready to get your Intel wireless working do the following...

In your kernel configure the following as modules..

CONFIG_IEEE80211=y
# CONFIG_IEEE80211_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_WEP=M
CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_CCMP=M
CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_TKIP=M
CONFIG_IEEE80211_SOFTMAC=M

then recompile/install your kernel.

Then emerge the following...

1. wireless-tools or wpa_supplicant (whatever fits your network setup/preference)
2. ipw3945 (this will also pull down ipw3945d & ipw3945-ucode)

And that is it. your wireless will more than likely be "ETH1". You'll notice at boot time that there is a ipw3945 service. Apparently for this particular wireless card it has to be ran as a service to get started. I cant remember why.

Good luck!
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