[ipw3945] Wireless card is not working with Gutsy

[Joseph Smidt]

I decided to upgrade to gutsy to help test it. One immediate problem is my Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG isn't working. Attached is some helpful files.

[Joseph Smidt (jsmidt)]

I just discovered that if I use wifi-radar it connects. This leads me to believe the nm-applet for gnome for some reason will noy connect my laptop to the internet.

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

Punting from Ubuntu -> network-manager

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

I see a similar issue in my Gutsy install. It seems to be dhcp related as the network card will seemingly correctly connect to the access point but will then fail to request a lease using DHCP. Setting the details statically or using dhclient eth1 allows the card to work correctly. The problem is reproducible every time.

My card in question is as follows:
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection [8086:4227] (rev 02)

As the ipw3945 chipset is so common this is fairly important and may well affect Dell laptops too.

This might be a duplicate of other "DHCP is broken on Gutsy" bugs like Bug #121566.

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

This problem may be due to this change:
network-manager (0.6.5-0ubuntu9) gutsy; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/series: disable 41o_completely_deactivate_stage1.patch
    for tribe-4

I'm no quilt expert so I've been unable to remove that patch to test...

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

this appears to be a duplicate of bug 128360 ... there is a bzr branch mentioned in there where i fixed the driver. Please test if possible.

[Joseph Smidt (jsmidt)]

The recent kernel update fixed this problem. Thanks.