Hi All
Thanks for your help, I have succeeded in installing the driver et all but
still I have some problem. I am writing down the steps which I fallowed
and the problem.
1. Somehow linux had wrongly identified 3c501 as wireless card instead of
Intel 3945 BG.
2. I installed IPW 3945 through yum and changed entry in
/etc/modprobe.conf and restarted the laptop.
3. After that I am able to activate wireless card through network
configuration window. Earlier it was giving error.
4. Now through configure wireless connection window, I entered the SSID No
in Network Name and WPA key in key coloumn.
But I am not able to connect to it.
Please guide me in this regard.
Thanks
kashif
Hi Kashif,
> Please find below a script that provides a solution from which you can be
> inspired. I thought I posted it in April 2008, but it seems it went into
> spam instead!
>
> The solution considers only 64-bit and 128-bit WEP encryption. I had since
> not been able to look for the solutions for WPA and WPA-PSK.
>
> For that it seems one has to fiddle with the wpa_supplicant services
> daemon which basically crashes on my laptop (HP Pavilion 5000 running
> SL50) and the HOWTO documents seem to suggest the appropriate driver for
> my wireless card is *not* available.
>
> Note that the default gateway may be on the "wrong" ethernet device.
> Specifically, when running this script from within /etc/rc.local, the
> default gateway will not be through the wireless card because the wireless
> card will then be activated at the end of the boot process. Simply
> deactivate then reactivate the device from system-config-network, allow
> all users to reactivate the devices, etc. Also, you can use, e.g.,
>
> # /sbin/route del default ; remove default gateway
> # /sbin/route add default gw 192.168.10.1 eth1 ; create new default
>
> to set the default gateway to wireless device (eth1 here) with IP address
> 192.168.10.1
>
>
> Hope the above helps.
>
> William.
>
> --------------------[start of script]---------------------------
>
> # This script is just to activate wireless connection for the
> # TrendNet TEW-432BRP Wireless Router to the on the
> # HP Pavilion 5000 laptop (dv5250ca). The laptop interface is
> # the: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
> #
> # This script is called from /etc/rc.local at boot time, where the
> # filename of the script *manually* inserted.
> #
> # The wireless router can be used if the laptop is given a fixed
> # IP address. For this to happen, the ipw3945d service (driver) has
> # to be activated so that the wireless connection is associated with
> # the eth1 interface (or whichever). (From HOWTO documents this is
> # done to meet an FCC legal requirement that a user must not be able
> # to give unlawful values to certain wireless connectivity parameters.
> # The ipw3945d daemon -- issued in binary only -- encapsulates sofware
> # that can change certain wireless connectivity parameters into
> # unlawful values, had the user had access to the source code.)
> # eth0 is associated with the wired network interface.
>
>
> # 1) activate the ipw3945d daemon
> # NOTE: The ipw3945d service must have been activated for eth1 to be seen.
> # this need be done only once either from system-config-services graphical
> # interface by using chkconfig as following:
> # add service for mgt by chkconfig, if not already there
> #
> # # /sbin/chkconfig --add ipw3945d
> #
> # activate service for [at least] runlevels 3 (command line) and 5
> (graphics).
> #
> # /sbin/chkconfig --levels 35 ipw3945d on
>
>
> # 2) configure the ethernet device. This can be done before step 3 below
> # NOTE: It is not yet known how to use an IP from the router's DHCP,
> # since eth1 would not be up by then.
>
> /sbin/ifconfig eth1 192.168.1.4 up
>
>
> # 3) wireless configuration. This can be done before step 2 above
> # give eth1 an SSID ("wlanName"), and automatically adjust bit rate (rate)
> and
> # transmission power (txpower).
>
> /sbin/iwconfig eth1 essid "wlanName" rate auto txpower auto
>
>
> # give the wireless key in ASCII (s:) and make it shared (restricted)
> # NOTE 1: password on command line is insecure as it may appear, say,
> # in ps command.
> # NOTE 2: The encryption schem is WEP (Wired Equivalent Protection)
> # which is notknown to be secure. For a 128-bit WEP encryption, supply
> # a key of 12 ASCII characters (Windows XP may insist on 16 characters).
> # Fewer (5 to 8?) may provide a 64-bit WEP encryption.
> # NOTE 3: The router also provides WPA and WPA-PSK encryption, but
> # iwconfig does not yet handle passphrases, and hence(?) them.
>
> /sbin/iwconfig eth1 key restricted s:xxxxyyyyzzzz
>
> --------------------[end of script]---------------------------
>
> --- On Mon, 7/21/08, [log in to unmask]
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: wireless card problem
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 11:32 AM
>> Hi All
>> I have installed SL 5 with dual booting on my Acer Aspire
>> 4710 laptop.
>> In Window Vista my wireless network is working fine.It is
>> showing Intel(R)
>> PRO/Wireless 3945BG wireless card.
>> But in linux platform when I try to activate wireless
>> network through
>> network configuration panel it give this error
>> 3c501 device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying
>> initialization.
>> please suggest that how to proceed to troubleshoot the
>> problem
>> Thanks
>> Kashif
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