Dear Troy,
I was following your instructions on installation of ipw3945 and everything
worked great except for the last part:

as root I did:

[root@resnet-172 software]# /sbin/chkconfig --level 2345 NetworkManager on
[root@resnet-172 software]# /etc/init.d/NetworkManager start
Setting network parameters:                                [  OK  ]
Starting NetworkManager daemon:                            [  OK  ]

following it by:

[hits@resnet-172 ~]$ /usr/bin/NetworkManagerInfo
[hits@resnet-172 ~]$
** (NetworkManagerInfo:2560): WARNING **: Failed to send buffer

** (NetworkManagerInfo:2560): WARNING **: Failed to send buffer

Do you know why it does not work.

thank you very much for your help,

Dmitry Hits.


>(Please note that as far as I know, we're the only RHEL based
>distribution that has Intel's 3945 working.  Much thanks go to Jarek for
>getting this working.)
>
>The following yum command will get you the right kernel module,
>firmware, and wireless deamon.
>
>yum --enablerepo=sl-contrib install ipw3945d ipw3945-firmware
>kernel-module-ipw3945-`uname -r`
>
>After that, there is much discussion about how to get it working,
>because you have to have the ipw3945 deamon running before you can use
>it.  Here were my instructions, others can feel free to chime in with
>better ideas.
>
>You need to get your computer to recognize the card.  I have found that
>
>   /etc/init.d/kudzu start
>
>works pretty good.  But then you need to get it so that the driver and
>the deamon start during startup.  I don't see a startup script yet, so
>what I did on the laptop's I worked on was edited  /etc/rc.sysinit
>
>And put in the lines
>
>   modprobe ipw3945
>   sleep 1
>   /sbin/ipw3945d
>
>right before the line that says
># Now that we have all of our basic modules loaded and the kernel going,
>
>At this point, your machine will see the card and load the module.
>Setting up your network connection is up to you.
>For this laptop, the NetworkManager worked, so I used it.
>As root:
>   /sbin/chkconfig --level 2345 NetworkManager on
>   /etc/init.d/NetworkManager start
>As a user (whether in Gnome or KDE):
>   /usr/bin/NetworkManagerInfo
>
>You will then get a radar on your system tray.  Click on it, and it will
>show you what networks are visable.  You might have to initially click
>on it, then click on it again.  Then select whichever network you want
>to connect to.  If that network needs a password, it will ask you for it.
>
>Troy
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