i solved it. thanks ;)
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Albert Hopkins <mar...@letterboxes.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 20:20 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: >> my laptop is thinkpad t61, and wireless card is intel pro/wireless >> 3945abg (according to the lspci output). i have configured my kernel >> as instructed by the handbook, and after compiling and reboot, i can >> see my wlan interface by iwconfig -a, and i modprobe iwl3945. but when >> i try iwspy wlan0, it says 'interface doesnot support wireless >> statistic collection'. and led on my laptop is off, and i cannot get >> it on. > > > If you check your dmesg output you'll probably find an error message > about the driver not being able to locate the firmware. > > # emerge net-wireless/iwl3945-ucode > > > -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84
