Akemi,

We got the wireless working in that computer.  We followed your suggestions to check the driver and also went through the bug report at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484406.  Thanks.

Yonggang

-----Original Message-----
From: Akemi Yagi [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 4:56 PM
To: Piazza, August
Cc: Cui, Yonggang; Mailling list for Scientific Linux users worldwide
Subject: Re: Intel 3945 WiFi with SL 5.9

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Piazza, August <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Below is the output of modinfo....not sure what you mean by NetworkManager correctly. Please explain.
>
> [root@130-199-131-253 ~]# modinfo iwl3945
> filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.18-348.el5/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945.ko
> firmware:       iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode

From what you have shown, it looks as if the correct module has been loaded. Please confirm that the firmware is there:

ls -l /lib/firmware/

What is not clear is at what point you have difficulty connecting to wireless. Do you see available wireless connections? Use the iwlist command if necessary. Or is it when you attempt to make a connection that it failed? Could it be a security setup/password issue? If/when using NetworkManager, do you get a request for the keyring password?
etc.

Akemi