RHEL 5.2 and IPW3945

[Barry Brimer]

Quoting Jason Riker <jasonrkr at charter.net>:

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of Barry Brimer
> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 9:41 PM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: RHEL 5.2 and IPW3945
>
> > Hi, all.  I performed a fresh install of rhel 5.2 today and all was good.
> > By this I mean that the wireless NIC worked.  Shortly after I did a 'yum
> > update' and the wireless card stopped.  I don't understand what happened
> and
> > don't know where to start researching the issue.  Can someone offer help
> > with this?
>
> > The laptop is an HP dv2000 (2660se to be specific) with an Intel IPW3945
> > NIC.
>
> In order for the wireless NIC to work, the ipw3945d service must be
> started before the device can be used.  If chkconfig --list ipw3945d shows
> "5:Off" then the ipw3945d service is not set to start on bootup.  You can
> enable it to start on bootup by typing "chkconfig ipw3945d on" .. you can
> also start it by typing "service ipw3945d start".  This will make the
> driver load so that it can be used by your system.  I don't know how you
> are configuring your network (ifcfg-ethX scripts, NetworkManager,
> wpa_supplicant) so I can't provide too much other assistance, but use
> iwconfig to determine if you are connected to the intended network.  dmesg
> is also usually helpful in finding issues with wireless cards, if it is at
> the device level.
>
> Hope this helps.
> Barry
>
> Barry,
>
> Thanks for the info.  I checked the status of ipw3945d and it is set to
> "5:On."  I am using NetworkManager.  The issue with NetworkManager is that
> when I click the icon in the panel wireless is there, but is dimmed and not
> selectable.  Right clicking on the icon shows "Enable Wireless" is selected.
> Grepping eth1 and ipw3945 from dmesg provide the following:
>
> eth1 - ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
>
> ipw - Radio Frequency Kill Switch is on:
>       Detected geography ABG (11 802.11bg channels, 13 802.11a channels)
>
> Please let me know if there's other information I should provide to help
> with this.

What is the output of "iwlist eth1 scan" ??