Intel 3945ABG wireless card Problems

[Hekerr]

Okay, after days and days of installing drivers and following HOWTO's I still am unable to work this wireless card.

It's a FS li2735 laptop with the Intel 3945ABG wireless card, which doesn't have the external switch, rather the FN+F1 switch.

I installed the compat-wireless-2.6-old drivers from the intellinuxwireless website, but I had to keep reinstalling them whenever I started ubuntu and it enabled to see my wireless card and the driver was listed, but couldn't connect to an unprotected university network.

*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:08:00.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0

That's it there even with ndiswrapper XP drivers installed and working.

Complete noob@ubuntu so large explanations may be needed.

HeKerr

[Hekerr]

bump4justice

also

netw5x32 : driver installed
device (8086:4222) present (alternate driver: iwl3945)
w29n51 : driver installed

[Hekerr]

accident

[Hekerr]

hi

ive progressed ans got the drivers do work through ndiswrapper

my only problem now is getting a connection, any tips?

here's some info.

kerr@kerr-laptop:~$ lshw -C network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8101E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 01
serial: 00:0a:e4:ce:1e:81
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.2LK ip=192.168.80.99 latency=0 module=r8169 multicast=yes
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:08:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 02
serial: 00:1f:3c:6d:1c:df
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ndiswrapper+netw4x32 driverversion=1.52+Intel,03/13/2008,11.5.1.15 latency=0 module=ndiswrapper multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g
kerr@kerr-laptop:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSIDff/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s
RTS thr=1600 B Fragment thr=2346 B
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:0 Missed beacon:0

kerr@kerr-laptop:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0a:e4:ce:1e:81
inet addr:192.168.80.99 Bcast:192.168.80.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20a:e4ff:fece:1e81/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1784 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1999 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1177675 (1.1 MB) TX bytes:270812 (264.4 KB)
Interrupt:220

lo Link encap:Local 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:1534 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1534 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:78165 (76.3 KB) TX bytes:78165 (76.3 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1f:3c:6d:1c:df
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 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:18 Memory:fa000000-fa001000