Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 241968
cannot create wireless connection using 'Network Device Control' utility using iwl3945 driver and wlan0
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:12:05 EST
Description of problem: No ability to create wlan0 device using 'menu->system->network device control' when using iwl3945 wifi driver. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora Core 7 with all updates How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use menu->system->netwlrk device control 2.Hit 'configure' button 3.In 'network configuration' dialog hit 'new' 4. Select 'wireless connection' The only option available is 'Other Wireless Card' Output of /sbin/lsmod | grep iwl3945 : iwl3945 154405 0 mac80211 153925 2 rc80211_simple,iwl3945 I have attached output of 'dmesg' Actual results: No ability to create network connection using wlan0 and iwl3945 Expected results: Ability to create a wireless connection using iwl3945 device Additional info: wmaster0 shows up as a device. Trying to activate it results in a long delay followed by a timeout.
Created attachment 155853 [details] Output of 'dmesg'
This is not a network-manager problem, the iwl3945 in the F-7 kernel has known troubles working with wpa. There is an F7 kernel-update candidate available here: http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/fc7/RPMS.kernel/ Which amongst other things contains various fixes to the iwl3945 driver. Please try this kernel and report back how it works for you. Always be carefull when testing new kernels. Use rpm -ivh to install the new kernel besides your current one so that you can always boot back into the old kernel. --- Also this problem has already been reported as bug 241507 , closing as a duplicate of that bug. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 241507 ***