iwl3945 & kernel 2.6.33

[Hans Zangger]

On 03/06/2010 05:19 AM, long.james410 wrote:
>
> I just did the exact same thing in a Debian environment and I had no problem.
> I bet you may have to redo your kernel .config file (make xconfig or make
> menuconfig) and make sure that kernel firmware loading is enabled. Also,
> make sure that the iwl3945 driver is enabled as a module, NOT included in a
> monolithic kernel. My kernel is entirely monolithic (even the mac80211
> subsystem) with the one exception of the iwl3945 driver. The reason is that
> the kernel needs to load the driver AFTER the filesystem is mounted so that
> it can find /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode. Once those things are taken
> care of in the kernel configuration you should have no problems loading the
> firmware.
> When that's done, you may help me to verify another problem, however. Upon
> loading the newly compiled kernel, I found that my connection drops during
> any large transfers. Simple web browsing, email reading, etc. work fine, but
> as soon as I try to download anything larger than 5MB, the connection drops.
> I had this problem with earlier kernels but was fixed in 2.6.32. It seems to
> be back. Let me know how your installation works and what was your kernel
> configuration (I'm trying to test different settings in the
> networking/wireless menu to see if any combination will fix the problem).
>
> Good luck!
>
> James Long
>
>
> Hans Zangger wrote:
>>
>> hi, since i compiled the newest kernel 2.6.33 the iwl3945 driver does
>> not load the microcode anymore. this has worked up till 2.6.32.9
>> any ideas?
>>
>> the driver loads, but in dmesg the following 2 line are missing and
>> ifconfig show no interface
>>
>>   >...
>>   >  iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode
>>   >  iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: loaded firmware version 15.32.2.9
>>   >...
>>
>> thanks _hans
>>
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James,
  the mail with my dmesg, lsmod, .config files got held up by the 
moderators. Maybe they release it sometime :-(
In the meantime I tried kernel 2.6.34-rc1, and how cool is that? _it 
just works_
cheers _Hans

n.b. if you still want the files I could send them to your gmail account 
~65kb