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Kevin Kimani wrote:> Hi, > I have a wireless network but no wired network. I need to access the > net for the necessary installation of the wireless drivers in CentOS > 5.1. Could anyone let me know how i can go about it!! My card is Intel > PRO/Wireless 3945Go buy a WET11 or similar piece of gear. This acts like a wireless STA to the network, and is an ethernet bridge to a wired device. I have been in a few hotels where they only provide wireless networking, and have a few WET11s for customers that can only connected via wires.
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 5:14 AM, Kevin Kimani <kevinkimani at gmail.com> wrote:> Hi, > I have a wireless network but no wired network. I need to access the net for > the necessary installation of the wireless drivers in CentOS 5.1. Could > anyone let me know how i can go about it!! My card is Intel PRO/Wireless > 3945The instructions on this page worked on a laptop with 3945ABG: http://www.distrostop.org/forums/index.php/topic,5694.0.html Note that you will need the centosplus kernel. Akemi
Akemi Yagi wrote:> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 5:14 AM, Kevin Kimani <kevinkimani at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> I have a wireless network but no wired network. I need to access the net for >> the necessary installation of the wireless drivers in CentOS 5.1. Could >> anyone let me know how i can go about it!! My card is Intel PRO/Wireless >> 3945 >> > > The instructions on this page worked on a laptop with 3945ABG: > > http://www.distrostop.org/forums/index.php/topic,5694.0.html > > Note that you will need the centosplus kernel.I have the 3945 and use dkms drivers from rpmforge. No kernel mods needed. Install dkms from rpmforge: dkms-2.0.20.2-2.el5.rf.noarch.rpm and get the 3945 rpms there too: ipw3945-firmware-1.14.2-1.nodist.rf.noarch.rpm ipw3945d-1.7.22-4.nodist.rf.i386.rpm After installing things tend to just work. Here is my modprobe.conf lines: alias eth1 ipw3945 install ipw3945 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ipw3945 ; sleep 0.5 ; /sbin/ipw3945d --quiet remove ipw3945 /sbin/ipw3945d --kill ;/sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove ipw3945 Don't know what that means, but..... I thought you were just asking how to get the system connected to the net so you could get the drivers, thus my earlier recommendation on the WET11..
Steve Huff wrote:> > On Aug 19, 2008, at 5:04 AM, Sorin at Gmail wrote: > >> I'm using a 3Com 3CRWE154G72 IIRC, which according to the hwconf's using the >> prism54 driver/firmware/whatever. >> >> Would I maybe be better off reinstalling the whole shebang and have the >> wifi-card inserted from start in order for the centos installer to >> see it >> properly from the beginning? > > > before you do that, open a terminal, become root, and run > /usr/sbin/kudzu (while the wireless card is installed). that's the > program that does hardware detection; it may be able to sort out your > issue. > > -steve >or if kudzu for some reason doesn't cooperate (which is always on my system) become root run : /sbin/modprobe prism54 run : dmesg | tail and read whether it just says it has loaded the module (single line) or detected will output a wlanX statement and you are in business _________________________________________________________________ Connect to the next generation of MSN Messenger? http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/default.aspx?locale=en-us&source=wlmailtagline -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080819/e092e44f/attachment-0005.html>
Sorin Srbu wrote: From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Toshaan Bharvani Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 2:42 PM To: centos at centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] wireless laptop configuration Steve Huff wrote:>> On Aug 19, 2008, at 5:04 AM, Sorin at Gmail wrote:>>> I'm using a 3Com 3CRWE154G72 IIRC, which according to thehwconf's using the>> prism54 driver/firmware/whatever.>>>> Would I maybe be better off reinstalling the whole shebang andhave the>> wifi-card inserted from start in order for the centosinstaller to>> see it>> properly from the beginning?>>> before you do that, open a terminal, become root, and run> /usr/sbin/kudzu (while the wireless card is installed). that's the> program that does hardware detection; it may be able to sort outyour> issue.>> -steve>or if kudzu for some reason doesn't cooperate (which is always on my system) become root run : /sbin/modprobe prism54 run : dmesg | tail and read whether it just says it has loaded the module (single line) or detected will output a wlanX statement and you are in business Isn?t it implied that since ?prism54? is listed in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf for the wifi-card that the module has been loaded already? Or is this some of the magical stuff that sometimes doesn?t happen for whatever reason? 8-) _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos /etc/sysconfig/hwconf is the file kudzu creates when of all detected hardware at startup and it related this hardware with drivers in the kernel but certain drivers are modules in the kernel, wich need to be loaded manually or later when the system is already running this can be done by method 1 explained here above or adding them in /etc/modprobe.conf which makes it load the modules at startup you will need to add the line (if it is not yet there) : alias wlan0 prism54 you can check whether the module is loaded with : /sbin/lsmod | grep prism54 _________________________________________________________________ Connect to the next generation of MSN Messenger? http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/default.aspx?locale=en-us&source=wlmailtagline -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080819/0857ff5d/attachment-0005.html>
Sorin Srbu wrote: From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Toshaan Bharvani Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 4:24 PM To: centos at centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] wireless laptop configuration Sorin Srbu wrote: From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Toshaan Bharvani Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 2:42 PM To: centos at centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] wireless laptop configuration Steve Huff wrote:>> On Aug 19, 2008, at 5:04 AM, Sorin at Gmail wrote:>>> I'm using a 3Com 3CRWE154G72 IIRC, which according to thehwconf's using the>> prism54 driver/firmware/whatever.>>>> Would I maybe be better off reinstalling the whole shebang andhave the>> wifi-card inserted from start in order for the centosinstaller to>> see it>> properly from the beginning?>>> before you do that, open a terminal, become root, and run> /usr/sbin/kudzu (while the wireless card is installed). that's the> program that does hardware detection; it may be able to sort outyour> issue.>> -steve>or if kudzu for some reason doesn't cooperate (which is always on my system) become root run : /sbin/modprobe prism54 run : dmesg | tail and read whether it just says it has loaded the module (single line) or detected will output a wlanX statement and you are in business Isn?t it implied that since ?prism54? is listed in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf for the wifi-card that the module has been loaded already? Or is this some of the magical stuff that sometimes doesn?t happen for whatever reason? 8-) /etc/sysconfig/hwconf is the file kudzu creates when of all detected hardware at startup and it related this hardware with drivers in the kernel but certain drivers are modules in the kernel, wich need to be loaded manually or later when the system is already running this can be done by method 1 explained here above or adding them in /etc/modprobe.conf which makes it load the modules at startup you will need to add the line (if it is not yet there) : alias wlan0 prism54 you can check whether the module is loaded with : /sbin/lsmod | grep prism54 This is how far I got with the above hints. For some reason I don?t have a wlan0, but instead a eth0. I did create an alias in Network Manager for eth0 > wlan0. Then I ran the below modprobe command according to the below. ?[root at centos-v5-x86 ~]# /sbin/modprobe prism54 [root at centos-v5-x86 ~]# dmesg|tail eth0: resetting device... eth0: uploading firmware... prism54: request_firmware() failed for 'isl3890' eth0: could not upload firmware ('isl3890') eth0: islpci_reset: failure eth0: resetting device... eth0: uploading firmware... prism54: request_firmware() failed for 'isl3890' eth0: could not upload firmware ('isl3890') eth0: islpci_reset: failure [root at centos-v5-x86 ~]#? ?When I try to activate wlan0, I get this message: Error for wireless request "Set Bit Rate" (8B20) : SET failed on device eth0 ; Input/output error. Determining IP information for eth0...SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory failed.? In /etc/modprobe.conf I?ve added the line ?alias wlan0 prism54?. What?s more, I went to the prism54.org site and found a firmware, downloaded it and as per instructed on the site, renamed the .arm-file to isl3890 and put it in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware. Upon restarting and activating wlan0 I still get the above SIOC-error. I have a hunch this might actually work if I put the isl3890-file in the correct place. Not sure /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware *is* actually right, as I had to create the hotplugs and firmware-folders. Any hints on this guys? TIA. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos you have used the following : 2.5.2.0.arm : http://daemonizer.de/prism54/prism54-fw/fw-softmac/2.5.2.0.arm Version 2.5.2.0 built on Thu Mar 4 16:05:03 CET 2004 by inlbuild at tix 87a5519d70c16991b8fff9b3b31de68e headers Source: 3CRWE154G72_Jul_08_04.exe try renaming to isl3886 as it is a pcmcia card so it is equal to a pci version and then put in in /lib/firmware _________________________________________________________________ Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy! http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080819/b6c4abcf/attachment-0005.html>