Puppy 4.00 & Intel Wireless 3945

[confuzzled]

Hi, I've just downloaded puppy 4.00 and I was trying to get wireless internet working. I ran the Puppy network wizard and clicked on eth1 which is says is my wireless card. It has loaded the ipw3945 module for it.
I then get the "configure network interface eth1" dialog.
I click on wireless and scanned for my network. Having found it I loaded it and entered my wep key. I then get a report from the previous dialog that it has found a live connection. Regardless I click "Test eth1", this too returns with a live connection report.
I then click on auto DCHP and wait about 30 seconds while it gets an ip.
All of this is giving off positive signals and looks like it's working. But when I actually try to do anything on the internet it's obvious that I'm not connected.

I've tried to download the windows driver for this card from the intel website but that didn't seem to work. I've also downloaded Intel's linux driver for this card but I have to compile it and I don't have gcc on puppy.

I have a dell 1400 vostro
2.0 Ghz Intel Core 2 duo
2 Gb Ram

Can anybody help me?

[Caneri]

Hi confuzzled,

I have the same problem with ipw3945...Intel Pro Wireless in Dingo4 and all Dingos.

This is a bug, as far as I can see as ipw3945 worked perfectly (including wep/wpa) with all puppy isos from 2.15CE onward..(as far as I know anyway).

Let's see if others are having the same problem and report to the Dingo4 bug thread on this forum. I think the following url is the right place to report bugs...I hope.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=28643

Best,
Eric

[blueoscar]

Hi All,

I'm new to puppy and think it's great. Believe it or not I had wireless working easily from the live cd. I was trying to do a frugal install and screw up my mbr. That's fixed and I sucessfully have done a frugal install but can't connect to wireless now, even with the live cd that worked before. I have an Asus A6000 laptop with xp sp2. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've pulled out the little bit of hair I have left.

Sincerely,

Rich

Here is some output:

Got wifi working with nimblex linux 2008 live cd

root@nimblex:~# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

root@nimblex:~#

This is iwconfig after: iwconfig wlan0 essid "xxxxxxxxxx" key "xxxxx" It started right up in nimblex
root@nimblex:~# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"xxxx"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:17:9A:52:1A:93
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:xxxx-xxxx-xx
Link Quality=73/100 Signal level=-61 dBm Noise level=-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

.........................................................................
what follows is all from puppy linux 0.40
kernel linux 2.6.21.7 {i686}

from lsmod

mmc_block 8712 0
mmc_core 27284 2 sdhci,mmc_block
ipw3945 198816 1
ieee80211 33864 1 ipw3945
ieee80211_crypt 5632 1 ieee80211
firmware_class 9600 1 ipw3945
r8169 28936 0
snd_hda_intel 289308 3
snd_pcm 75656 3 snd_hda_intel
snd_timer 22020 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 10120 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_hwdep 9220 1 snd_hda_intel

ifconfig

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions

eth0 no wireless extensions

eth1 unassociated ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency=nan kHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:16 dBm
Retry limit:15 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:2497 Missed beacon:0

[setecio]

I'm having a problem with Netgear WG511T (atheros chipset) and WPA in Dingo. The problem vary from 'failing to acquire WPA connection' to seemily acquiring it but no real connection, dropping ath0 when WPA is attempted, and always failing to re-establish on reboot (if a working connection was present before rebooting).

I have a multi boot with 3.01 which all works fine when I reboot into it and has always worked flawlessly.

I don't have time to check out much right now but will down the line, in the meantime I'll stick with NOP3.01

[gamfa]

My ThinkPad uses the Intel Pro Wireless 3945. In Puppy 3.0 and in Muppy it used the ipw3945 module and configured as eth1. In the latest Grafpup alpha release the module has changed to iwl3945. That version of Grafpup uses the 2.6.24.3 kernel. I don't know which kernel Pup 4.0 uses but this might be your problem.

[blueoscar]

The kernel is 2.6.21.7 {i686} and the module is ipw3945. iwl3945 is what it should be using. The weird thing is that this worked before using the live cd and now that won't work. ??????????

Rich

[gamfa]

I'm running Pup 3.0 on that machine and it uses the 2.6.21.7 kernel also and it has the ipw3946 module. Is the ipw3945 module loading? If it is, then run "top" in a console and look for a process "ipw3945d". If it isn't running then that is your problem. I had that problem on Muppy. If it isn't running, first check in /sbin to see if it is there. If it is, them in a console run ipw3945d" and then try to use the card. You can add that to your rc.local so it will run on boot. What I do is use a script to fire up my wireless. Below is the one I use on Muppy. You see I run the ipw3945d first and then configure. I don't like my network conn's. to start on boot.

#!/bin/sh
echo Connecting to Router
ipw3945d
ifconfig eth1 up
ifconfig eth1 mtu 1450
iwconfig eth1 essid dlink
iwconfig eth1 key off
iwconfig eth1 mode managed
rm /etc/dhcpc/*.pid
dhcpcd -t 30 -R -h puppypc -d eth1
ifconfig
iwconfig
echo Connected
sleep 5s

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[aragon]

hi all,

for my ipw3945 i can confirm that the problem is the not autostarted daemon /sbin/ipw3945d is.

i added this line to the /etc/rc.d/rc.local rebooted and after this, my wifi runs like a charm.

thanks gamfa for the hint.

cheers
aragon

[richm]

Aragon could you tell us the exact syntax of the line you added? I too have an Intel Wireless 3945 Toshiba Laptop which will not connect to the Wireless internet. I a relative newbie and need detailed description of what to do. Ive found the location and can use geany to add the line, but am not sure of the exact syntax
Many Thanks,
RichM