Ubuntu 8.04.1 - Intel Pro/Wireless 3945AGB Solution (w/o Duct Tape)?

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Please note that in my experience Dell has available the choice of
"Warranty Extensions" for Support of their Hardware, but they do not
"support" any type of software that goes into their equipments,either
they be Microsoft, Ubuntu, or whatever.
They do provide an alternative thought: if you pay a fee ( circa £
60.++) you can get a Tech who in a "remote access mode" might be able to
help you out.
But beware...the Techs they use are of varied experience and competence.
Good luck.

On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 15:45 -0700, Brendan Strunk wrote:
> I think Dell has Ubuntu support if they don't support it then try
> installing wine and install the driver
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> > To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > From: glgxg at sbcglobal.net
> > Subject: Re: Ubuntu 8.04.1 - Intel Pro/Wireless 3945AGB Solution
> (w/o Duct Tape)?
> > Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:20:09 -0700
> > 
> > On 07/24/2008 02:14 PM, NoOp wrote:
> > > On 07/20/2008 09:21 AM, Odean H. Goforth wrote:
> > >> I am wanting to migrate from Windows to Linux. However my
> wireless card
> > >> will not work with the current release of Ubuntu. I am using a
> Dell
> > >> Notebook E1505 with an Intel Pro/Wireless 3945AGB card. This card
> worked
> > >> fine with Ubuntu 7.10.
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >> Will this card be supported in the Linux community or not? I have
> been able
> > >> to fine reference to many people having the same problem I am
> however I am
> > >> finding no solutions to the problem only "Duct Tape" fixes that
> don't work.
> > > 
> > > It appears that it is an issue with Intel:
> > > 
> > > http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/
> > > http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1579
> > > [Bugzilla – Bug 1579 iwl3945 does not detect all AP's and is too
> slow
> > > for NetworkManager]
> > 
> > FWIW: I just had to roll back someone's Vista driver today for this
> > exact card on a Dell laptop. Ever since it had been updated to the
> 2007
> > driver the card would drop out on WPA2 connections; rolling it back
> to
> > the 2006 driver fixed the problem. So, it's not just an linux
> problem
> > with the card.
> > 
> > 
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