Intel wireless 3945 card is not working on 2008 beta1 cd. Loading ipw3945 module is broken. please provide iwl3945 instead. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot 2008.0 beta1 livecd 2.sudo bash 3.Try /etc/init.d/ipw3945d start or modprobe ipw3945 Actual Results: livecd ~ # modprobe ipw3945 FATAL: Module ipw3945 not found. * Starting ipw3945d ... chown: cannot access `/sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw3945/00*/cmd': No such file or directory chmod: cannot access `/sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw3945/00*/cmd': No such file or directory 2008-04-19 16:51:30: ERROR: Unable to create pid file '/var/run/ipw3945d/ipw3945d.pid' [ !! ] FATAL: Error running install command for ipw3945 (This should be run in boot runlevel) like solved here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3896157.html Expected Results: To work out-of-the-box
As I had experience with this drivers I would like to note that it's practically impossible to find out combination of kernel-version/drivers which will work for everybody. For some people iwlwifi does not work, for some iwl3945. ATM move to iwlwifi is impossible as this drivers are masked in the tree, bug 207698. On the other hand 2.6.24 includes in kernel iwlwifi drivers, which are rather old, 1.1.17, so may be not now, but in next release it's better to move to in kernel drivers as 2.6.25 seems to use version 1.2.26. So the only solution ATM is to fix your bug with ipw3945. What happens if you restart /etc/init.d/ipw3945d after some delay. Will you see same errors?
ok, since ipw3945 never worked for me fine, will wait for release with newer kernels (>=2.6.24 works without problems). Errors seems to be same after delay
