I am trying to locate the Centos 5 ipw3945 rpm files in order to support my onboard WLAN device in my Acer x86_64 laptop.

I can't seem to find these rpms within the Centos 5 repositories.

I have, however, found the following on the RHEL 5 supplementary disc:
ipw3945d-1.7.22-2.el5.x86_64.rpm kmod-ipw3945-1.0-4.7.el5.x86_64.rpm
ipw3945-ucode-1.13-2.el5.noarch.rpm kmod-ipw3945-xen-1.0-4.7.el5.x86_64.rpm

These, along with wpa_supplicant, allow me to connect with WPA-PSK just fine under Centos 5.

I am just wondering where the rpms are under Centos, as I'd rather not mix Centos and RHEL rpms.

Any help in pointing the way is much appreciated.

Try adding RPMforge repo to your yum repositories. They have the dkms-ipw3945 package. Also, it is generally safe to use rpm's for RHEL5.

Akemi

So why haven't these rpms been built for Centos from the RHEL source rpms ?

Is it because there on the supplementary cd and presumably source isn't available for these (having taken a quick peek at ftp.redhat.com) ?

Does that mean none of the rpms on the supplementary cd have been built for Centos ?

Answers;

1. Because they are package supplied by third parties (Adobe, IBM, Intel and so).

2. Exactly.

3. See answer two.

The driver is in Atrpms repo, so as root you just need to create a file in your /etc/yum.repos.d/ called atrpms.repo and have the following lines in it:

[atrpms]
name=CentOS $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/el$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable
gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
gpgcheck=1

To install and load the driver from the repo above type the commands:
# rpm --import http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
# yum install ipw3945
# /sbin/ipw3945d --quiet
# modprobe ipw3945

Then you can activate the service NetworkManager with which you will be able to connect to a wireless network in a very simple way with a smart Gnome tool that will appear on the panel

Enjoy

Kerm_it

Sorry, the correct commands are:

To install and load the driver from the repo above type the commands:
# rpm --import http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
# yum install ipw3945
# depmod -a
# modprobe ipw3945
# /sbin/ipw3945d --quiet

how can i automate this process through modprobe.conf or some init script so as i dont have to run these commands everytime i boot my system.

Regards
Sajid

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My laptop takes care of wireless automatically at boot.

1) Make sure you have the alias in /etc/modprobe.conf (I have the line "alias eth1 ipw3945')

2) Make sure you have ipw3945d-1.7.22-4.nodist.rf.rpm (or greater) from RPMForge (http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories/RPMForge). It provides /etc/init.d/ipw3945d, which automatically starts the daemon.

Regards,
Steve

Hi all

will there be an ipw3945 kernel module for the latest kernel-2.6.18-8.1.10.el5 ?

best regards, Alpha-Linux

The ipw3945d package from rpmforge should work in the new kernel-2.6.18-8.1.10.el5.

Hello ,

I followed kerm_it's post, and it went very smooth without any error message, and when I checked the ssstem ==> hardware , I can find my intel ipw3945 card there. However, when I do
/sbin/iwconfig. There is no eth1 as below:

[root@localhost yeandre]# /sbin/iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

I'm using the Centos 5 kernel as below:

[root@localhost yeandre]# uname -p -r
2.6.18-8.el5 i686


More information:
[root@localhost yeandre]# /sbin/ipw3945d
ipw3945d - regulatory daemon
Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
version: 1.7.22
Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection found at:
/sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw3945/0000:05:00.0
Daemon launched as pid 3240. Exiting.

Seems the driver has been installed successfully, but why the system still can't load the wireless module, and there is no eht1? Thanks for help in advance!


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Check that the ipw3945 module is present with 'lsmod'.

Check that this line is in /etc/modprobe.conf:

alias eth1 ipw3945

Check that your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 script is present, and that the DEVICE= line in it correctly says 'eth1'.

Regards,
Steve