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From: Espen Hustad <espen.hustad@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Loading iwl3945 erratic
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:32:26
Message-Id: 371ab3650809171332j3c9e6f90w55b3ccf2c547015b@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Loading iwl3945 erratic by Alan McKinnon
1 On Wednesday 17 September 2008 22:03:52 Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > Hi all,
3 >
4 > I have a Dell XPS M1530 with an Intel IWL3945 wireless card. On
5 > power-up/reboot it sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. I can find no
6 > pattern at all, success does not depend on the machine being hot/cold
7 > rebooted, powered up from shutdown, hibernate, suspend or any other usual
8 > thing. I don't use the wireless-rf kill switch at all.
9
10 > Config:
11 > alan@nazgul ~ $ zgrep IWL /proc/config.gz
12 > CONFIG_IWLWIFI=m
13 > CONFIG_IWLCORE=m
14 > # CONFIG_IWLWIFI_LEDS is not set
15 > CONFIG_IWLWIFI_RFKILL=y
16 > # CONFIG_IWL4965 is not set
17 > CONFIG_IWL3945=m
18 > CONFIG_IWL3945_SPECTRUM_MEASUREMENT=y
19 > CONFIG_IWL3945_LEDS=y
20 > # CONFIG_IWL3945_DEBUG is not set
21 >
22 > alan@nazgul /etc $ grep -i iwl /etc/mod*conf
23 > /etc/modprobe.conf:alias wlan0 iwl3945
24
25 Hi!
26
27 Do you have mac80211 compiled as a module or in kernel? See
28 http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/Ipw3945#iwlwifi for explanation. I'm not sure
29 though if this is still a issue, or if it has been fixed.
30
31 Espen

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Re: [gentoo-user] Loading iwl3945 erratic Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>