ERROR: Could not find Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG

[Ernest L. Williams Jr.]

On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 20:18 -0800, Per Bothner wrote:
> Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 23:45 -0800, Per Bothner wrote:
> >> Though last time I updated, it didn't work for me,
> >> even though I had updated to a matching kernel module.
> > You also have to modify modprobe.conf manually:
> > 
> > install ipw3945 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ipw3945 ; sleep
> > 0.5 ; /sbin/ipw3945d --quiet
> > remove ipw3945 /sbin/ipw3945d --kill ; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove
> > ipw3945
> 
> Actually, I got it working today.  The hint to also
> install yum-plugin-kmdl may have helped.
Yes, I did this also.


> 
> I don't need anything for ipw3945 in modprobe.conf.
> Instead I created the attached init file.
> 
> (I can't start ipw3945d from rc.local, since that gets
> run too late.)
Agreed; ipw3945 never comes back after a reboot.  
I must manually restart it each time.  Sometimes it will just associate
and come to life on its own a few "10s of seconds" after I log into my
desktop.  We should not have to put this into rc.local.
By the way, I tried your script and it did not work for me.

I thought that the purpose of modprobe.conf is to get the device going
early on.
Also, I have used system-config-network to setup eth1 to startup at boot
time.  
My "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1" reflects this as well.



When booting the message states something like:
==============================================================
Device ipw3945 not detected; delaying initialization.
==============================================================




Thanks,
Ernest


> plain text document attachment (ipw3945d)
> # chkconfig: 2345 4 96
> # description: Start ipw3945 daemon
> 
> # Source function library.
> . /etc/init.d/functions
> 
> test -x /sbin/ipw3945d || exit 0
> 
> start() 
> {
>         echo -n $"Starting ipw3945d: "
> 	/sbin/ipw3945d
>         echo
> }
> 
> case "$1" in
> start)
>         start
>         ;;
> stop)
>         ;;
> status)
> 	status /sbin/ipw3945d
> 	 ;;
> *)
>         echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|condrestart|status}"
>         exit 1
> esac
> 
> exit $RETVAL
>