Precision M4300 / wifi intel 3945 / success (Bruno Friedmann)

[Bruno Friedmann]

Thanks Roy for this positive feedback.

I'm working with the openSUSE guys, as actually neither ipw3945 nor iwl3945 have success.

The good news is that you have a working solution, this would tend me to exclude a hardware trouble.
To be absolutely sure, I will download the gusty live cd, and see if the wifi module work with it.

I will post here the result, and when it would work on my laptop.



Roy Jackson wrote:
> To Bruno Friedmann,
> 
>      I am using Ubuntu Gutsy 64 bits on a Dell Precision m6300, it also uses
> the Intel 3945 wireless card. I was having issues with it having a very low
> transfer rate as well as dropping out entirely. I switched from using the
> ipw3945 kernel module to using the iwl3945 module. The difference is night
> and day. In order to use that module instead of the default ipw3945 module,
> I had to blacklist the ipw3945 module. I did this by creating a file in the
> /etc/modprobe.d called "backlist.ipw3945". In this file I wrote, "blacklist
> ipw3945". In the /etc/modules file, I added on a new line with "iwl3945".
> This allowed the iwl3945 kernel module to be loaded. Hopefully you can do
> the same with Opensuse.
> 
> On Dec 15, 2007 4:55 PM, Roy Jackson <leguirerj at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> To Bruno,
>>
>>
>>
>> On Dec 15, 2007 1:00 PM, <linux-precision-request at dell.com> wrote:
>>
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>>> Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:33:10 +0100
>>> From: Bruno Friedmann <bruno at ioda-net.ch>
>>> Subject: Precision M4300 / wifi intel 3945 / success
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>>> Hello dear precision owner.
>>>
>>> I'm looking about someone who have any success with the intel 3945 wifi
>>> module inside a Laptop Precision M4300.
>>>
>>> Under my openSuse 10.3 64Bits I've got a stange phenom, The link
>>> (between my host and AP) is constanly up/down with a 1-2 seconds.
>>>
>>>
>>> Any help or tips or what ever are greatly appreciate.
>>> Even on other distrib.
>>>
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