Hello,

I have a Dell Latitude D620 with SL kernel 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 installed.
Everything works fine except the Wifi:

Error message in system-config-network 1.3.99:
"Définition des informations IP pour eth1. échoué. Aucun lien n'a é
té
trouvé. Vérifier le câble ?"
(sorry this is french, it means "no link found. check cable?")

I have installed all the ipw3945 related packages:
ipw3945
ipw3945-firmware
ipw3945d
kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5


The card seems to be dected (I also see the wifi led blinking):
# /sbin/lsmod | grep ipw3945
ipw3945               178856  1 
ieee80211              33417  1 ipw3945

but it seems to be unasociated:

# /sbin/iwconfig eth1
eth1      unassociated  ESSID:off/any  Nickname:"lerma10.obspm.fr"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency=nan kHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
   
          Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power:16 dBm   
          Retry limit:15   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:256   Missed beacon:0


I can however see the mac address in system-config-network. So I tried
forcing this address with "iwconfig ap ..." but the result it the same...


Any clue?
Thanks