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Hi all, |
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I have a Dell XPS M1530 with an Intel IWL3945 wireless card. On |
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power-up/reboot it sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. I can find no pattern |
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at all, success does not depend on the machine being hot/cold rebooted, |
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powered up from shutdown, hibernate, suspend or any other usual thing. I |
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don't use the wireless-rf kill switch at all. |
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I've googled, read the comments in the source and read heaps of howtos without |
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success. Ideas anyone? |
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On failure, the exact error message in dmesg is: |
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Sep 17 18:04:48 nazgul [ 5.304072] iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless |
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3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver for Linux, 1.2.26kds |
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Sep 17 18:04:48 nazgul [ 5.304072] iwl3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2008 Intel |
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Corporation |
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Sep 17 18:04:48 nazgul [ 6.229313] iwl3945: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi |
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Link 3945ABG |
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Sep 17 18:04:48 nazgul [ 6.230984] iwl3945: Error: saturation power is -1, |
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less than minimum expected 40 |
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Sep 17 18:04:48 nazgul [ 6.230984] iwl3945: Invalid power index |
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Sep 17 18:04:48 nazgul [ 6.230984] iwl3945: initializing regulatory |
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failed: -5 |
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Sep 17 18:04:48 nazgul [ 6.237253] iwl3945: probe of 0000:0b:00.0 failed |
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with error -5 |
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On success, the dmesg output is: |
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Sep 17 18:37:52 nazgul [ 4.576768] iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless |
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3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver for Linux, 1.2.26ks |
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Sep 17 18:37:52 nazgul [ 4.576768] iwl3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2008 Intel |
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Corporation |
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Sep 17 18:37:52 nazgul [ 5.490369] iwl3945: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi |
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Link 3945ABG |
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Sep 17 18:37:52 nazgul [ 5.603457] iwl3945: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, |
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23 802.11a channels |
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Sep 17 18:37:52 nazgul [ 5.609491] phy0: Selected rate control |
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algorithm 'iwl-3945-rs' |
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The hardware: |
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alan@nazgul ~ $ sudo lspci | grep -i wireless |
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0b:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network |
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Connection (rev 02) |
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Kernel: 2.6.26-gentoo |
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Config: |
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alan@nazgul ~ $ zgrep IWL /proc/config.gz |
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CONFIG_IWLWIFI=m |
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CONFIG_IWLCORE=m |
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# CONFIG_IWLWIFI_LEDS is not set |
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CONFIG_IWLWIFI_RFKILL=y |
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# CONFIG_IWL4965 is not set |
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CONFIG_IWL3945=m |
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CONFIG_IWL3945_SPECTRUM_MEASUREMENT=y |
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CONFIG_IWL3945_LEDS=y |
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# CONFIG_IWL3945_DEBUG is not set |
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alan@nazgul /etc $ grep -i iwl /etc/mod*conf |
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/etc/modprobe.conf:alias wlan0 iwl3945 |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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