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From: Xi Shen <davidshen84@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] wireless does not work on thinkpad t61
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:50:41
Message-Id: 53e35fd50909110550j46f9f7a3xef2678a5bceef46@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] wireless does not work on thinkpad t61 by Albert Hopkins
1 i solved it. thanks ;)
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4 On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org> wrote:
5 > On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 20:20 +0800, Xi Shen wrote:
6 >> my laptop is thinkpad t61, and wireless card is intel pro/wireless
7 >> 3945abg (according to the lspci output). i have configured my kernel
8 >> as instructed by the handbook, and after compiling and reboot, i can
9 >> see my wlan interface by iwconfig -a, and i modprobe iwl3945. but when
10 >> i try iwspy wlan0, it says 'interface doesnot support wireless
11 >> statistic collection'. and led on my laptop is off, and i cannot get
12 >> it on.
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15 > If you check your dmesg output you'll probably find an error message
16 > about the driver not being able to locate the firmware.
17 >
18 > # emerge net-wireless/iwl3945-ucode
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26 Best Regards,
27 David Shen
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29 http://twitter.com/davidshen84