Intel Pro 3945 wireless + openSuse 10.1 - evil incarnate? Please help!

I've been running in circles and jumping through hoops trying to get this damn thing to work.

For school (Virginia Tech) they required us to buy the new Toshiba M400 tablet PC. It's expensive as hell and pretty handy so I won't knock it too much. However, I installed openSuse 10.1 on it (knowing the tablet functions wouldn't work) and I've been pleased.

Linux works well with the hardwired ethernet but getting wireless to work is next to impossible.

I've downloaded the latest drivers from the Intel website, the ieee80211 required files (although I don't know WHY I need them or *What* they do) and I downloaded the daemon program.

Other stuff:
Its a 2gghz dual core centrino and the openSuse page has this wireless card listed as being supported by 10.1 and questionable for others. So before you ask me if it's supported and to use ndiswrapper, I already know that's not an issue. Plus, I've seen many stories in my search of people actually getting it to work. None of their personal methods have worked for me thus far so maybe I'm retarded but oh well

I always run into this program when I'm trying to fire up the wireless card:

hc6526f88:/home/kevin/Desktop/ipw3945-linux-1.1.0 # modprobe ipw3945
FATAL: Error inserting ipw3945 (/lib/modules/2.6.16.21-0.13-bigsmp/updates/ipw3945.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknownparameter (see dmesg)
hc6526f88:/home/kevin/Desktop/ipw3945-linux-1.1.0 # dmesg | grep -i ipw3945
ipw3945: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encodeext
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encode
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encode
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_txb_free
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encodeext
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan
ipw3945: Unknown symbol escape_essid
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_freq_to_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_set_geo
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_channel_to_index
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_geo
ipw3945: Unknown symbol free_ieee80211
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_tx_frame
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_is_valid_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_channel_flags
ipw3945: Unknown symbol alloc_ieee80211
ipw3945: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encodeext
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encode
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encode
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_txb_free
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encodeext
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan
ipw3945: Unknown symbol escape_essid
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_freq_to_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_set_geo
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_channel_to_index
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_geo
ipw3945: Unknown symbol free_ieee80211
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_tx_frame
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_is_valid_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_channel_flags
ipw3945: Unknown symbol alloc_ieee80211
ipw3945: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encodeext
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encode
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encode
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_txb_free
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encodeext
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan
ipw3945: Unknown symbol escape_essid
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_freq_to_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_set_geo
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_channel_to_index
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_geo
ipw3945: Unknown symbol free_ieee80211
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_tx_frame
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_is_valid_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_channel_flags
ipw3945: Unknown symbol alloc_ieee80211
ipw3945: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encodeext
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encode
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encode
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_txb_free
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encodeext
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan
ipw3945: Unknown symbol escape_essid
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_freq_to_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_set_geo
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_channel_to_index
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_geo
ipw3945: Unknown symbol free_ieee80211
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_tx_frame
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_is_valid_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_channel_flags
ipw3945: Unknown symbol alloc_ieee80211
ipw3945: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encodeext
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encode
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encode
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_txb_free
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encodeext
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan
ipw3945: Unknown symbol escape_essid
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_freq_to_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_set_geo
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_channel_to_index
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_geo
ipw3945: Unknown symbol free_ieee80211
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_tx_frame
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_is_valid_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_channel_flags
ipw3945: Unknown symbol alloc_ieee80211
ipw3945: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encodeext
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encode
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encode
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_txb_free
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encodeext
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan
ipw3945: Unknown symbol escape_essid
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_freq_to_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_set_geo
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_channel_to_index
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_geo
ipw3945: Unknown symbol free_ieee80211
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_tx_frame
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_is_valid_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_channel_flags
ipw3945: Unknown symbol alloc_ieee80211
ipw3945: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encodeext
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encode
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encode
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_txb_free
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encodeext
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan
ipw3945: Unknown symbol escape_essid
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_freq_to_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_set_geo
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_channel_to_index
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_geo
ipw3945: Unknown symbol free_ieee80211
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_tx_frame
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_is_valid_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_channel_flags
ipw3945: Unknown symbol alloc_ieee80211
ipw3945: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encodeext
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encode
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encode
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_txb_free
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encodeext
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan
ipw3945: Unknown symbol escape_essid
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_freq_to_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_set_geo
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_channel_to_index
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_geo
ipw3945: Unknown symbol free_ieee80211
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_tx_frame
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_is_valid_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_channel_flags
ipw3945: Unknown symbol alloc_ieee80211
ipw3945: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encodeext
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encode
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encode
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_txb_free
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encodeext
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan
ipw3945: Unknown symbol escape_essid
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_freq_to_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_set_geo
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_channel_to_index
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_geo
ipw3945: Unknown symbol free_ieee80211
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_tx_frame
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_is_valid_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_channel_flags
ipw3945: Unknown symbol alloc_ieee80211
ipw3945: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encodeext
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encode
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encode
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_txb_free
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encodeext
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan
ipw3945: Unknown symbol escape_essid
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_freq_to_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_set_geo
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_channel_to_index
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_geo
ipw3945: Unknown symbol free_ieee80211
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_tx_frame
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_is_valid_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_channel_flags
ipw3945: Unknown symbol alloc_ieee80211
ipw3945: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encodeext
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encodeext
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encode
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encode
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encode
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encode
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_txb_free
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_txb_free
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encodeext
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encodeext
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_freq_to_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_freq_to_channel
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_set_geo
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_set_geo
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_rx
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_get_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_channel
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_channel_to_index
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_channel_to_index
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_get_geo
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_geo
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol free_ieee80211
ipw3945: Unknown symbol free_ieee80211
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_tx_frame
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_tx_frame
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_is_valid_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_is_valid_channel
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_get_channel_flags
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_channel_flags
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol alloc_ieee80211
ipw3945: Unknown symbol alloc_ieee80211
ipw3945: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encodeext
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encodeext
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encode
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encode
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encode
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encode
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_txb_free
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_txb_free
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encodeext
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encodeext
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_freq_to_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_freq_to_channel
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_set_geo
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_set_geo
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_rx
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_get_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_channel
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_channel_to_index
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_channel_to_index
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_get_geo
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_geo
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol free_ieee80211
ipw3945: Unknown symbol free_ieee80211
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_tx_frame
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_tx_frame
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_is_valid_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_is_valid_channel
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_get_channel_flags
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_channel_flags
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol alloc_ieee80211
ipw3945: Unknown symbol alloc_ieee80211
ipw3945: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encodeext
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encodeext
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encode
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encode
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encode
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encode
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_txb_free
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_txb_free
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encodeext
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encodeext
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_freq_to_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_freq_to_channel
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_set_geo
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_set_geo
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_rx
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_get_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_channel
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_channel_to_index
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_channel_to_index
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_get_geo
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_geo
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol free_ieee80211
ipw3945: Unknown symbol free_ieee80211
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_tx_frame
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_tx_frame
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_is_valid_channel
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_is_valid_channel
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_get_channel_flags
ipw3945: Unknown symbol ieee80211_get_channel_flags
ipw3945: disagrees about version of symbol alloc_ieee80211
ipw3945: Unknown symbol alloc_ieee80211


consider for the sake of simplicity that I'm a somewhat new comer to linux. Even tohugh I got opensuse 10.0 to work wireless on my old tower PC with a linksys card and not needing ndiswrapper, I'm stumped here.

If anyone can help that'd be great. If you need any more output just let me know (along with how to get it). If I get it working I'm probably going to write a definitive guide for my sheisty tutorial site (www.howthenetworks.org) and I'll gladly give anyone who helped me out credit.

Thanks again,
Kevin

Have you seen this?

http://linux.dd.am/samsung/samsungr65.html

I know its for a Samsung notebook, but they got the 3945 card to work by using the SUSE 10.1 add-on CD image (a link to the iso image is available there), which supposidly will satisfy the ieee80211 module dependency.

This doesn't seem to work. I reinstalled everything and still nothing. Note that lspci finds the hardware device but iwconfig doesnt seem to list any wireless extensions.

Here's lspci for my card:

02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)

and this is from ifconfig

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0E:7B:6B:ED:96
          inet addr:198.82.111.40  Bcast:198.82.111.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20e:7bff:fe6b:ed96/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:10172 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1770 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:434 txqueuelen:10
          RX bytes:2517316 (2.4 Mb)  TX bytes:277246 (270.7 Kb)
          Base address:0xb000 Memory:ffc00000-ffc20000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:185 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:185 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:12415 (12.1 Kb)  TX bytes:12415 (12.1 Kb)

and just for good measure heres iwconfig

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

sit0      no wireless extensions.

According to Novell / Suse you have to load the ipw3945d from the 6th disc.

Try it out

Michael

I have it installed but do I need to do anything special to run it? Or how would I check if it's running

You need the kernel module and the firmware. Go to ipw3945.sourceforge.net for the rpms.

Hi, I do have EXACTLY the same problem on my MSI megabook S262 (Core Duo 2 GHz) with Suse 10.1 . But... Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Dake Live CD detects and configures the card with no problems (module=ipw3945). So it does work.

Anyone out there with a good idea how to thet this thing to work in Suse? Update to 10.2 ??

lsmod shows the active modules
lspci the PCi stuff
lsusb the usb devices...

Hello all,

I would like to stand corrected... there are two drivers that must be installed from the 6th disk. If you search for IPW you will find both of them.

1. ipw3925d
2. ipw-firmware

once you have them installed do a:

hwinfo --netcard

make sure that both are loaded.

then go to yast/network devices/network card and config your card normally.

Michael

Originally Posted by mabreaux According to Novell / Suse you have to load the ipw3945d from the 6th disc. Try it out Michael

...and don't forget the kernel modules rpm from the standard installation media (should be automatically selected while dependencies are resolved):

3. wlan-kmp-.... (name depending on your kernel version)

I did all this, but it still resulted in the above probs. Any ideas how to get WLAN to work?

I ran the CD Live for Ubuntu last night and it auto configured my pro/wireless card and network and all it asked for from me was the wep key.. WOW now if only SUSE would get there act together and do the same.

Michael

Oh well, think I've got much closer to the problem: For testing I replaced my Suse smp-kernel with a default kernel with no smp support. And guess what: IPW3945 WLAN works out of the box!

So I think that the drivers (or some related thing) are incompatible to a smp-kernel. That really sucks!

This explains why Ubuntu live-DVDs work (no smp kernel), while Suse 10.1 or Sabayon 3.0 live-DVDs (Gentoo based, very nice!!!) do not (smp-kernel), even if all of them bring the IPW3945 drivers along.

Any ideas for a solution ???

I just got my laptop to work with that same card - see thread under http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...highlight=3945

I hope this helps.

Which kernel do you use: kernel-default or kernel-smp ? (You can check that when you click on the SUSE icon on the desktop)

fanformusik, I'm guessing you were asking me about the kernel...

On uname -a, I got:

Linux linux-wwy 2.6.16.21-0.21-debug #1 SMP Tue Aug 29 16:42:05 UTC 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

...so it looks like I'm running the smp kernel - If I remember correctly this is one of the items that I installed from the add-on CD.

I hope this helps.