Monday, September 24, 2007

Intel 3945 wireless at Linux

Edited - this problem is solved at these to 2 posts: 1 and 2.
In this post I'm going to gather all the information I'm able to find regarding the wireless solutions for the 3945 wireless conneciton of Intel cards. It seems to me, that in linux there are three ways to connect this specific wireless thing 3945:
1. Using the older (and stable as of the date of writing this post) ipw driver
2. Using the newer (and under heavy development) iwl driver
3. Using ndiwswrapper and the drivers for windows

Now it seems to me, that the newer driver is going to be integrated in the Kernel of Linux (if I'm not wrong about that) as of version 2.6.22 etc (that means, in Ubuntu Gutsy probably; right now there are packages for Arch Linux and Sidux, if I'm not wrong about that; not sure about the stability and quality though). I'm impatiently looking forward to testing this on mu Ubuntu Linux. The results of my attempts to connect to a wifi network are going to be posted as well.

The drivers for Windows, which seem to be working with ndiswrapper, are for "Windows* XP", and the driver is NETw4x32.INF

I'm going to post here all the links I have gathered, for to have success in connecting this 3945 thing to the internet:
The bible of linux drivers, sections 4.8 and 4.9 -> LINK
HOWTO for setting up and using ndiswrapper -> LINK
A table for the switching of the RF switch -> LINK

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