Ubuntu 9.10 - No wireless connections detected with Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG

[Daaaveee]

Hi all,

Recently took my first step in to Linux by installing Ubuntu 9.10 on to my Dell Inspiron 9400 laptop.

First off DVDs would not play, but I managed to sort that quickly after googling it.

My second problem though has so far not been fixable from googling. No wireless networks are being discovered. I know the hardware is working fine as it was fine in Windows, and also other devices are connecting to the network no problem. The card in my laptop is an Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG. I have found other people having problems with it but still havn't been able to fix it from solutions offered to them.

Any help is appreciated

 

[Daaaveee]

Well just installed some updates through wired connection and its working now?!

Oh well thanks for reading

 

[Roland0]

Thats strange the 3945 work quite well with ubuntu!

 

[jellybeard999]

I came here with the same issue on my Acer Aspire One, nothing at all mentioned within network manager under wireless

I've plugged in too and am getting 273 updates, so hopefully it's in there somewhere.

I'm a first time linux user, so go easy on me

 

[psd99]

I came here with the same issue on my Acer Aspire One, nothing at all mentioned within network manager under wireless

I've plugged in too and am getting 273 updates, so hopefully it's in there somewhere.

I'm a first time linux user, so go easy on me

this might work go into terminal and then paste this into the screen:

pciid=$(for i in `ls /sys/bus/pci/devices/` ; do cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/$i/modalias | cut -d \: -f 2 | awk -F "s" '{ print $1 }' ; done) && u=`uname -r` && for x in `find /lib/modules/$u/kernel/ *.ko -type f`; do modinfo $x | grep -qi "$pciid" && echo $x ; done 2>/dev/null | tr -t '-' '_' | sed -r 's/.*\/(.*).ko/\1/' | while read line ; do echo $line | grep -x -v -E "`cat /proc/modules | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | tr '\n' '|'`" ; done | while read line2 ; do echo ; printf "modprobe $line2" ; done ; echo;

Now see what lines you get from the output


now type in sudo -s
enter password

then copy and paste the lines you saw for instance I got:

modprobe i2c_i801
modprobe iTCO_wdt

let me know if it works