Strange Wireless Glitch
 

I Just Bought a Dell Lattitude D620, it has a Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Card (rev 02) "wifi Card"
I installed Slackware 12.1 & everything worked right out of the Box, I did the usual editing in rc.inet1.conf & rc.wireless.conf

I restarted the computer and browsed the net on wireless, later I shut the computer off. I turned it on the next day & have no wireless working, so I restarted it and now it is working again.

Every time I turn the laptop on and boot into KDE, I have to do a "restart" to get the wireless working again.

Question ? How can I fix this so the wireless works just after booting up into KDE ?

Hi,

try unloading the ipw3945 module, and reloading it manually. my guess is that it'll work as if after a reboot. If it does, a possible solution may be to load the module at a later time (like 1 or 2 seconds later than now).

Serafean

I Don't know how to do that, is it possible to edit some file and have the driver boot up later than it is, I'm not sure how change the Boot order either. Maybe something else needs to be booted up before this driver on a power on start ?

What is happening is when I click on the wireless Icon in KNemo in KDE it is not showing a Default Gateway unless I do a reboot. I run a Static network, so I manually Configured evertthing. Am I Simply forgetting to add the Default Gateway address into a file somewhere ?

After doing a reboot I click on KNemo in the lower right hand corner & it then shows the Gateway Address and Wireless works...

from what I know, you should add the default gateway to your rc.inet1.conf file, just add the following line : GATEWAY=""

when you say you have no wireless connection, do you really mean the wireless part or just IP/gateway (browsing...). If the latter, I suggest you make a /etc/resolv.conf file manually.

Yes I do get signal every time, but can't access the internet because the wlan0 interface is not showing the Gateway address, unless I restart the computer after booting up the first time.

in rc.inet1.conf I already have Gateway="192.168.1.1", and already have 4 DNS server addresses in /etc/resolv.conf , I even changed the order, I now have the gateway address just below the DHCP address also, it hasn't made any difference.

Hi,

Post the output of 'ifconfig -a' right after boot. Along with 'route -n'.
Post the relavant portion of '/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf' for your devices.

You can make all your settings within '/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf' for your devices. 'Configuring your network in Slackware' is a good place to start.

I got it, I had a habbit of booting into root first, I still have to reboot the system into root again to get wireless working. I quit booting into root to tweak my system, so now everytime I either start or restart it works with my regular user account. So apparently everything was working, but just not the same in the root account. Is it a security Issue that Slackware knows it is not as safe to be on the internet in the Root account? For security purposes I like it this way...