Need help with 3945 card on Dell 1505

amy

Hey I need help. I am new to  and so far everything has gone smooth with the exception of my wireless card. have tried using restricted drivers as well as using ndiswrapper. none of this worked. My wifi light just flashes. Trying to use Wifi Radar as a network manager. It does pick up networks but will not connect. Any help would be appreciated. (Using  7.04)

Try to connect to one.  Then open an empty terminal and type ifconfig, then iwconfig.  Paste the results into this thread.

ce

I don't have an option to connect. Wifi Radar only has a disconnect option and says that I am connected to none.

I helped this guy with a Dell with his problem:
from : localhost//showthread.php?t=476662

Possibly this link will help you.  I you are planning on using ndiswrapper, you will need to compile from source.  Ive found the version in the repositories do not help.  Read the link I posted, it will help you uninstall ndiswrapper (completely -- very important). And then help you reinstall it from source.

What is different about your problem versus the one in the post above is your wireless card -- you will need a different driver.  When we get to that point -- we can solve that problem, so no worries.

I think he already tried to compile ndiswrapper from the source.  I tried helping him with it using this how to:

[ucl=quot; from : localhost//showthread.php?t=297092amp;highlight=dell+1501quot;]

I have the 1501 and it worked great for me.  I figured that it would work on his by just changing the driver from Dell and blacklisting the driver that his computer was trying to use.  Everything that he had read led him to believe that his card would work from the get go.  However, when activating has wifi, the light would just blink instead of staying on solid.  We achieved the same result after using the procedure with ndiswrapper.  I hope this helps.

ifconfig gives this:eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:19:B9:51:CC:3C           inet addr:68.52.139.194  Bcast:255.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.255.128         inet6 addr: fe80::219:b9ff:fe51:cc3c/64 Scopeink         UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1         RX packets:593350 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0         TX packets:4894 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0         collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000          RX bytes:44923306 (42.8 MiB)  TX bytes:758707 (740.9 KiB)         Interrupt:22

lo        Link encapocal 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:30 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0         TX packets:30 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0         collisions:0 txqueuelen:0          RX bytes:1869 (1.8 KiB)  TX bytes:1869 (1.8 KiB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:192:01:9E:C6           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1         RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:77 overruns:0 frame:0         TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0         collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)         Interrupt:16 Base address:0xe000 Memory:efcff000-efcfffff

wlan0:ava Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:192:01:9E:C6           inet addr:169.254.8.23  Bcast:169.254.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0         UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1         Interrupt:16 Base address:0xe000 Memory:efcff000-efcfffff
iwconfig gives:

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     unassociated  ESSIDff/any           Mode:Managed  Frequency=nan kHz  Access Point: Not-Associated            Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power:16 dBm            Retry limit:15   RTS thrff   Fragment thrff         Power Managementff         Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0         Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0         Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:80   Missed beacon:0