[SOLVED] Unable to connect wireless network with Intel 3945

[mrigs]

Dear forum members,

I am having this recent issue where I am not able to connect to any wireless network from my Mageia installation, even though I can see all the wireless networks. This started happening 4-5 days back and am not sure if some update has something to do with it. The wifi network itself may not be an issue as I am able to connect to the network from my Vista installation.

Mine is a Dell XPS M1530 with Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945 Dual Band 802.11a/g 54 1 Mbps Wireless Mini Card. Please suggest how to go about troubleshooting this issue.

Thank you.

[tom_]

can you try to use the driver 15.32.2.9 here suggested?

https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=2246&p=25577&hilit=3945#p25577

details about what is happening on your machine are in /var/log/syslog

[doktor5000]

That is no driver, but firmware. And normally you get all three firmware packages installed:

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[doktor5000@Mageia2 ~]$ ufn iwlwifi
Nonfree Release:iwlwifi-3945-ucode-15.32.2.9-3.mga2.nonfree.noarch
Nonfree Release:iwlwifi-4965-ucode-228.61.2.24-5.mga2.nonfree.noarch
Nonfree Release:iwlwifi-agn-ucode-20120421-3.mga2.nonfree.noarch

You could check if that firmware is installed on your box but should be, otherwise you would not have been able to connect at all before.

[mrigs]

Thank you doktor5000 and tom_.

As suddenly as the problem appeared, it disappeared as well today! Not sure what might be the issue here but perhaps the wifi set-up at home might be playing foul as my Vista partition too had problems in connecting today.

Anyway, I checked my firmware and I have the "iwlwifi-3945-ucode - Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG microcode​" installed. Not the other two.

Things seem to be working fine now and so I'll take the liberty to mark this thread as [SOLVED].

Thank you once again!