Bugzilla – Bug 1541
iwlwifi looks for iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode (there is a '-1' in the filename)
Last modified: 2008-01-10 00:30:18
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Downloaded from: http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/ - mac80211-10.0.2.tgz (version Nov 20 2007) - iwlwifi-3945-ucode-2.14.4.tgz (version Jun 27 2007) - iwlwifi-1.2.22.tgz (version Nov 28 2007) - Made kernel Linux 2.6.21.5 using Slackware 12 having mac80211 - Installed iwlwifi-3945.ucode in /lib/firmware - Made and installed iwlwifi-1.2.22.tgz After doing 'modprobe iwl3945' is shows (DMESG) the name of the firmware looked for is: iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode There is an extra '-1' in the filename!! After renaming the filname in /lib/firmware it works very well using wpa_supplicant and all.
This is a duplicate of bug http://bughost.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1486 Please _search_ before posting. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 1486 ***