Comment 29 for bug 139080

> if you have a chance to test iwl3945 drivers currently in intrepid,
> please do so.
>
>
> - Alexander
>
>
I have been able to get my PRO/Wireless 3945ABG wireless card working
with the iwl3945 driver. I am currently using it with the network admin
tool delivered with my version of Ubuntu:

 > cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=7.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=gutsy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 7.10"

Here are my notes on the install:

Installed the iwl3945 driver as described at:

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download

Modified /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules, commenting out the
eth1 device for the ipw3945 driver:

# PCI device 0x8086:0x4222 (ipw3945)
# Commented out to test iwl3945 driver
# SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:1f:3c:28:be:d7",
NAME="eth1"

Added the following to the end of /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist:

blacklist ipw3945
blacklist ieee80211
blacklist ieee80211_crypt

Added the following to the end of /etc/modules:

iwlwifi_mac80211
iwl3945

During my travels in trying to get this to work I did install wicd. I
originally got the card to work with wicd/iwl3945 but found that, as I
moved from site to site, wicd did not reconfigure my passwords and/or
password types correctly (can't remember the details, but I viewed the
config files and they were definitely not being updated properly).
Because of this, I removed wicd and am now using the network-admin tool
that comes with Ubuntu and all is reasonably well. I find that, if I
loose my wireless connection, I sometimes have to reboot to recover it
and sometimes not. Ah well, at least it works generally.

Thanks to all who have worked getting the drivers to work!

Lynne Lawrence