[Tfug] Anybody try "wicd" as a replacement for Network Manager?

[andy]

I'll look at some of these other solutions Ryan and see if one will work
for me. I'm thinking about maybe trying the ndiswrapper for Windows
drivers since I do have those available. I appreciate all the
alternatives, I had no idea that many were available. I'll bet one of
them will workl

Right now, I use a LinkSys WRT54G router too, but it's one of the new
cheap ones that doesn't have enough memory for a firmware update. I need
to get one of the Linux versions I guess, so I can experiment.

I also use channel 11 and have no problems at all from this laptop with
Feisty.

I appreciate all the help, and I'm sure I'll figure it out eventually. I
had a few problems early on with Feisty as well, but it's rock solid now
and allows my XP partition to just collect dust 'figuratively speaking'.

Andy

On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 11:32 -0700, Ryan Cresawn wrote:
> On Nov 8, 2007 10:09 PM, andy <andyjones at cox.net> wrote:
> > I have the same Intel Pro/Wireless 3945 and now I'm having problems
> > again with the wifi not connecting. It will connect via cable, but not
> > with wifi.  It defaults to 'wext', and I noticed you used the supplicant
> > 'ipw', I tried it and no difference.  What's the difference? Any other
> > suggestions?  It was working fine until I shut it down and restarted.
> 
> So far my Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 has dropped my connection on a daily
> or more than once a day basis when using Network Manager.  I switched
> to Wicd and it did not drop the connection for a couple days so I
> briefly thought things were fixed; however, last night my connection
> was dropped with Wicd.
> 
> There are many drivers available for this Wi-Fi card.  I think these
> are all of them:
> 
> ipw3945 - http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/
> -----------------------------------------------------
> This driver is open source except for the firmware which is uploaded
> to the card when the driver is loaded.  I believe this has to do with
> FCC compliance and the proper assignment of blame if someone is able
> to program the card to work outside of the permitted frequency range.
> I believe this is the driver included and used with Ubuntu 7.10 by
> default.  I believe Wicd identifies this as "ipw" because there are
> several drivers which begin with "ipw".
> 
> iwlwifi - http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/
> --------------------------------------------------
> This driver is open source and probably has the same closed firmware
> issue as the above driver.  I believe this driver is an attempt by
> Intel to use a code base suitable to both the 3945 and 4965 cards
> rather than making a separate driver for the 4965.  This driver
> appears to be newer than the ipw3945 driver.  I don't believe this
> driver is included in Ubuntu 7.10, but it will probably replace
> ipw3945 in future releases of Ubuntu.
> 
> ndiswrapper - http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Product_Filter.aspx?ProductID=2259
> --------------------------------------------------
> This is a wrapper program that permits the use of the Intel
> PRO/Wireless 3945 driver for Windows.  I have not used this solution
> but wonder if it might work better than their other solutions.  I bet
> that Intel tests their Windows drivers more than those they write for
> Linux.
> 
> I'm not sure where to go with this discussion.  One thing we could do
> is submit a bug for Gutsy or start a wiki page for Gutsy to try to
> consolidate all our observations and testing.
> 
> Finally, there's one other oddity worth mentioning.  A friend of mine
> named Ben has this same card and he was having problems staying
> connected to a fairly new Linksys router—one that supports N.  He
> concluded that the router was the problem and replaced it with a
> D-Link.  Since that time his connection has been completely stable.  I
> have a Linksys WRT54G v2.  I use the Tomato firmware on my router.
> What router and firmware do you use?  Also which channel do you use?
> I use 11 because most everyone else in my neighborhood uses 6 and no
> one but me uses 11.
> 
> Ryan
> 
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