Precision M4300 / wifi intel 3945 / NO success (Bruno Friedmann) / found the trouble

[Bruno Friedmann]

Hi all,

After investigating multiple way I've found where the trouble is :
My laptop have a bluetooth module and if this one is activated in bios, all wifi try are unsuccessful.
Even with the ndiswrapper and the lastest DELL windows 64bits drivers in which we learn when reading the changelog that they've
got some trouble with bluetooth.

When I desactivate in bios the bluetooth, the wifi work like a charm
with iwl3945 (the new intel drivers) or the old ipw3945.

But that doesn't satisfy me because I need the bluetooth link with my softphone.


Should I call Dell for a hardware problem ? Should I wait a new bios ...

Any clue around there ?



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,
>>
>>
>>
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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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>>> Regards
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