Comments on: Intel 3945ABG Wireless / WiFi Card on CentOS 5

By: rajeev

rajeev — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:47:19 +0000

my intel pro 3945 wifi card not working in centos 5.2.Is any way to install this in lenovo 3000 N200

By: Niki Kovacs

Niki Kovacs — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:17:06 +0000

Hi,

I’m running CentOS 5.2 on all my machines here (work and home). I have the same problem with an ASUS laptop and an Intel 3945 wireless card. I’m using an unencrypted wireless network for testing. When I setup the card statically in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1, I can connect OK. But the same thing with NetworkManager fails. It just keeps searching and searching, and then times out.

Is there any way to tell NetworkManager not to time out?

By: Ayman

Ayman — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:39:07 +0000

Hi mongo,

to make sound card works on Centos follow these instructions:

1- import these lines into file with extension .repo
[atrpms]
name=Centos ATrpms
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/el5-i386/atrpms/stable
gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
gpgcheck=1
includepkgs=alsa-driver alsa-kmdl*

2- copy this file to /etc/yum.repos.d/
3 - run this command to install driver
yum install alsa-driver alsa-kmdl-`uname -r`
4- reboot

for more information use this url http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=195804&mode=linear

By: mongo

mongo — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:29:05 +0000

Hi Nick.
The tutorial about wireless is PERFECT.
I’ve installed centos 5.2 in a lenovo t60 but I can’t activate sound card (it seems to be detected but no sound can be heard). Could you help. Thanks

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:21:35 +0000

Hi cloudmaster, yeah the icon’s changing with Distro upgrades can catch us out
One thing I can suggest is try shorting your PSK, I had a very strange problem the other day where one device would connect, but a second wouldn’t… give it a go, you never know your luck!

By: Cloudmaster

Cloudmaster — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:24:26 +0000

Forget what I just posted, I am seeing Network Manager, I just didn’t know what I was looking at.

I am still having problems in that I’m getting the same error Vinod is seeing (disconnected during association), & no matter how many times I re-enter my PSK it doesn’t connect.

By: Cloudmaster

Cloudmaster — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:51:37 +0000

Hi Nick,

Thanks for putting up this info. I use a laptop as a ‘testbed’ for various distro’s, & a while back installed CentOS 5.2. Using your instructions I got wireless networking running (something I’ve never been able to do before) with the networking applet.

I’ve just re-installed CentOS 5.2, but can’t see the applet any more & have no clue how to set up wireless networing manually. NetworkManager & NetworkManagerDispatcher are running, so I have no clue as to what’s wrong.

There’s not many posts here so I hope you’re still watching this site!!

By: widhi

widhi — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:31:32 +0000

Hi, nick
thank a lot for your tutorial. I’m do that all you say and my wifi was active. I can see all the wifi network with network manager. But nick I’m still have one problem that is I can join to wifi network. Can you solve this problem?

Thanks
widhi

By: karna

karna — Sat, 10 May 2008 18:31:57 +0000

Hi Nick,

I am new to linux. I have centos 5 and installed DAG following this link:
http://www.ultranetsolutions.com/CentOS-5-install-rpmforge-yum-repo.html

when i run ‘ yum install dkms-ipw3945 ‘ i see the following:
Loading “installonlyn” plugin
Loading “priorities” plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
719 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
Parsing package install arguments
Nothing to do

I am unable to see the icon in NM… plz help me to resolve this ..

Thanks
karna

By: Michael Stanley-Baker

Michael Stanley-Baker — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:54:11 +0000

Hey, I have the same problem with a an Intel 3495 ABG on a TOshiba ProSatellite U300. Pro/Wireless just will not connect with my hidden SSID. Have tried many workarounds, but so far nothing. I’m wondering if there is a better wireless client that I can use rather than the Intel OEM. Do you have any suggestions?