Intrepid issue: wireless intel 3945 on Dell D520

[Karl Larsen]

Catalin David wrote:
> Hey, guys and girls! Get your cups of coffee or cigars and please, bare 
> with me!
>
> I'm still up having an issue for a couple of days. I have a laptop, the 
> above mentioned model. It's being used, mainly, in 2 places: my room and 
> a lab where I work.
> System was until today dual-boot with Win XP, but, because it was too 
> slow, I decided to reinstall it. I wasn't able to find a cd with that so 
> I installed Vista (bad choice, fixed the MBR and now I'm back in Ubuntu).
>
> So, getting to the issue:
> In the lab (I use a wireless router 802.11b at home), I don't know what 
> router we have, but I get a kernel panic moments after turning on the 
> wireless (searched on the web, reported to be a wireless 802.11n issue 
> with the kernel). Suggested solution: install 
> linux-backports-modules-intrepid in order to make it work. It worked 
> until now, no kernel panics ever since.
>
> Still, I have encountered another problem with WinXP. If I have my 
> wireless turned off while restarting, the wireless, won't turn on in 
> Ubuntu. Since I got Vista, it always turns off the wireless before 
> restarting, so I get no wireless in Ubuntu. Suggested solution: 
> uninstall linux-backports-modules-intrepid  **. So I did and it works 
> fine now. Haven't tested in the lab, but I expect kernel panics there, too.
>
>
> With the backports installed:
> $ sudo lshw -C Network -> reports the wireless as network unclaimed
> $ lsmod | grep iwl3945 -> outputs nothing, so the module is not loaded
> $ sudo modprobe iwl3945 -> Error inserting iwl3945 
> (/_path_to_iwl3945.ko): Unknows symbol in module or unknown parameter 
> (see dmesg)
> $ dmesg | tail ->
> iwl3945: Unknown symbol lbm_cw_print_ssid
>
> Without the backports, everything is fine as long as I stay home (not 
> quite of an option... I hope you understand that :P ).
>
>
> So, has anyone experienced that before? If yes, a possible tweak?
>
> I am willing to test anything on my machine (in the limits of common 
> sense) if you are willing to offer me instructions.
>
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Catalin
>
>   
    Well no help but my new lap top has an Intel everything and windows 
works fine with WiFi but Intrepid will not even admit to seeing a WIfI 
sytem.

    I had to delete my Vista partition to get at the 140 GB It was 
using. I discovered that the Gparted in the Intrepid LiveCD cannot part 
a system with the new Windows file system. So I removed the entire 
partition and installed Ubuntu. Right now I am installing Windows back 
in from the software saved in another partition.

    This re-install is really interesting and is taking the better part 
of an hour to take place. I HATE Windows :-)

Karl


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