Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 5:14 AM, Kevin Kimani <kevinkimani@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
I have a wireless network but no wired network. I need to access the net for
the necessary installation of the wireless drivers in CentOS 5.1. Could
anyone let me know how i can go about it!! My card is Intel PRO/Wireless
3945
The instructions on this page worked on a laptop with 3945ABG:
http://www.distrostop.org/forums/index.php/topic,5694.0.html
Note that you will need the centosplus kernel.
I have the 3945 and use dkms drivers from rpmforge. No kernel mods needed.
Install dkms from rpmforge:
dkms-2.0.20.2-2.el5.rf.noarch.rpm
and get the 3945 rpms there too:
ipw3945-firmware-1.14.2-1.nodist.rf.noarch.rpm
ipw3945d-1.7.22-4.nodist.rf.i386.rpm
After installing things tend to just work. Here is my modprobe.conf lines:
alias eth1 ipw3945
install ipw3945 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ipw3945 ; sleep 0.5 ;
/sbin/ipw3945d --quiet
remove ipw3945 /sbin/ipw3945d --kill ;/sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove
ipw3945
Don't know what that means, but.....
I thought you were just asking how to get the system connected to the
net so you could get the drivers, thus my earlier recommendation on the
WET11..
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