Hello, maybe a different issue, but...
I have a DELL D630 with the ipw3945 for a week now.
Wifi works fine with vista (have not used it much though.)
Had issues with SL5. I found in my /var/log/messages:
Oct 4 10:58:11 xxxx kernel: ipw3945: Microcode SW error detected.
Restarting.
Oct 4 10:58:11 xxxx kernel: ipw3945: Error Reply type 0x000000FF cmd TX
(0x1C) seq 0x0000 ser 0x00030000
Oct 4 10:58:12 xxxx kernel: ipw3945: Can't stop Rx DMA.
Oct 4 10:58:12 xxxx NetworkManager: <WARNING>
nm_device_802_11_wireless_get_essid (): error getting ESSID for device
eth1: Resource temporarily unavailable
After googleing I tried the firmware ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2 I pulled from
intel. (dropped the ipw3945.ucode in /lib/firmware where /etc/firmware/
had a link to it.) No more Microcode SW error. My connection seems
stable. Working for a day now. I'm using WPA(PSK).
Also I have:
iwconfig eth1:
eth1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"Drift"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: xxxxxx
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:15 dBm
Retry limit:15 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=90/100 Signal level=-44 dBm Noise level=-45 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:1 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:259 Missed beacon:0
iwlist eth1 scan:
eth1 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: xxxxxxx
ESSID:"2003"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
Mode:Ad-Hoc
Channel:11
Encryption key:off
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s
Quality=63/100 Signal level=-69 dBm Noise
level=-69 dBm
Extra: Last beacon: 198ms ago
Cell 02 - Address: xxxxxxx
ESSID:"Drift"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
Mode:Master
Channel:1
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Quality=88/100 Signal level=-45 dBm Noise
level=-45 dBm
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Extra: Last beacon: 261ms ago
Hope this helps.
Robert
