I was suspecting it to be a firmware issue, but anyway it doesn't work
for me on a clean install of SL 6.2 nor 6.3 - not even on a live system.
And as I wrote, I bought another card with the same chipset either.

One thing that comes to mind is that my notebook that I had that in is
getting pretty old (>5 y) and the processor in it gets the whole
machine frozen sometimes - I think it easily might be some hardware
issue, but not sure at all because I saw other bug reports too. Wonder
why my Atheros works without a glitch for half a year now if so.


On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:30:12 -0500
Robert Blair <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> Very odd.  My laptop has this card and works just fine under sl6.3
> x86_64.  I'm using it as I type now.  Could this be a firmware issue?
> I seem to recall loading firmware a long time ago for this card (the
> timestamp on the file is Apr 23  2009 and the details below), but I
> did a clean install on this system a few months ago.
> iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 3945ABG
> iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode
> iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: loaded firmware version 15.32.2.9
> 
> 
> On 03/26/2013 02:14 PM, Andras Horvath wrote:
> > I cannot recommend what would be the best, but instead I'd like to
> > point out which one's not a good buy.
> > 
> > From one point of update since SL 6.2 I was continuously having
> > problems with my Intel 3945 ABG wifi card. Serious kernel panics and
> > hangings happened after a couple of minutes uptime. I read about
> > similar problems on the net from CentOS systems too around the same
> > time of my update.
> > 
> > This card was working just fine before on SL, and even after on
> > different Linux systems - later I even bought another card
> > with the same chipset - but SL still produced the errors. So I
> > replaced my card with one from Atheros and problems are gone.
> > 
> > Andras
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:22:14 -0700
> > Joseph Areeda <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > 
> >> I tried to use the Broadcom WiFi that came with the motherboard
> >> (don't have the model number right now).
> >>
> >> It seemed to not be recognized although Windows sees it fine in
> >> another system.
> >>
> >> Would someone recommend a good USB Wifi that has current drivers
> >> for SL6.3?  Or point me to a list of drivers available in the
> >> release repositories?
> >>
> >> It's a long story but we need both wired and wireless on this
> >> system and easier to buy a compatible interface rather than do
> >> much work to find non-standard drivers.
> >>
> >> Thank you,
> >>
> >> Joe
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