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Manufacturer	Intel
Model	PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
Bus	pci
Type	Network controller
Id	8086
Info2	4222
Info3	8086
Info4	1021

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Overall rating: 4.3 x 68

By Linux distribution:

• Fedora Core 6 i386: 3.0 x 1
• Mandriva Linux 2007.1 x86_64: 3.0 x 1
• Ubuntu 7.04 i386: 5.0 x 11
• Ubuntu 7.10 i386: 5.0 x 1
• openSUSE 10.2 i586: -3.0 x 1
• Ubuntu 7.10 i386: 3.0 x 1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 i586: 5.0 x 1
• Ubuntu 7.10 x86_64: 5.0 x 1
• Fedora 7 i386: 3.0 x 1
• Debian lenny/sid i386: 5.0 x 1
• Ubuntu 7.04 i386: 5.0 x 1
• Debian lenny/sid i386: 5.0 x 1
• Ubuntu 6.10 i386: 5.0 x 1
• openSUSE 10.2 X86-64: -3.0 x 1
• Mandriva Linux 2007.0 i586: 5.0 x 1
• Debian lenny/sid x86_64: 5.0 x 1
• Fedora 7 i386: 3.0 x 1
• Debian lenny/sid i386: 3.0 x 1
• Mandriva Linux 2007.1 i586: 5.0 x 1
• Debian lenny/sid i386: 5.0 x 1
• Ubuntu 7.10 i386: 5.0 x 1
• Mandriva Linux 2007.1 i586: 5.0 x 1
• Mandriva Linux 2008.0 i586: 5.0 x 2
• Debian lenny/sid i386: 5.0 x 1
• openSUSE 10.3 X86-64: 5.0 x 1
• Gentoo Gentoo Base System release 2.0.0_rc4-r1 GenuineIntel: 5.0 x 1
• Ubuntu 7.10 i386: 5.0 x 4
• Debian lenny/sid x86_64: 5.0 x 1
• Mandriva Linux 2008.0 i586: 4.3 x 3
• Gentoo Gentoo Base System release 1.12.10 GenuineIntel: -3.0 x 1
• Debian lenny/sid i386: 5.0 x 1
• openSUSE 10.3 X86-64: 5.0 x 1
• Gentoo Gentoo Base System release 1.12.11.1 GenuineIntel: 5.0 x 1
• Ubuntu 8.04 i386: 5.0 x 1
• Mandriva Linux 2008.1 i586: 5.0 x 1
• Debian lenny/sid i386: 5.0 x 1
• Debian lenny/sid i386: 5.0 x 1
• Gentoo Gentoo Base System release 2.0.0 GenuineIntel: 5.0 x 1
• Mandriva Linux 2008.1 i586: 5.0 x 1
• Gentoo Gentoo Base System release 2.0.0 GenuineIntel: 5.0 x 1
• Ubuntu 8.04 i386: 5.0 x 2
• Debian lenny/sid i386: 5.0 x 1
• Debian lenny/sid i386: 5.0 x 1
• Debian lenny/sid i386: 4.0 x 2
• Mandriva Linux 2008.1 i586: 5.0 x 1
• Gentoo Gentoo Base System release 2.0.0 GenuineIntel: 5.0 x 1
• Fedora 10 i386: 5.0 x 1
• Debian 5.0 i386: 5.0 x 1
• Arch Linux Arch Linux \r (\n) (\l) GenuineIntel: 3.0 x 1
• Fedora 10 i386: 5.0 x 1

Working PCI wireless cards on Ubuntu 7.04 i386 (kernel: 2.6.20-16-generic) by Maxime81 (5):

Proprietary driver

Working PCI wireless cards on Gentoo Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 GenuineIntel (kernel: 2.6.21-gentoo) by whitepj (0):

Not yet tested. See http://manx.biz/opensource/Dell-M65/

Working PCI wireless cards on Ubuntu 7.04 i386 (kernel: 2.6.20-16-generic) by aerdhyl (5):

It works out of the box with proprietary drivers ipw3945

Working PCI wireless cards on Ubuntu 7.10 i386 (kernel: 2.6.22-8-generic) by sonal (3):

linux-generic needed so that the linux-restricted-modules is installed and updated automatically

Working PCI wireless cards on Ubuntu 7.04 i386 (kernel: 2.6.20-16-generic) by Ivoo (5):

Intel non free driver

Working PCI wireless cards on Ubuntu 7.10 i386 (kernel: 2.6.22-7-generic) by Plam (5):

With Ubuntu 7.04 perfect, out of the box, but restricted firmware.

Working PCI wireless cards on Ubuntu 7.04 i386 (kernel: 2.6.20-16-generic) by mmaudet (5):

Using proprietary driver

Working PCI wireless cards on Mandriva Linux 2007.1 x86_64 (kernel: 2.6.17-14mdv) by crog05 (3):

Need drivers delivered in PowerPack only or available via PLF

Working PCI wireless cards on Fedora 7 i386 (kernel: 2.6.22.1-27.fc7) by empi (0):

I did not test it yet.

Working PCI wireless cards on openSUSE 10.2 X86-64 (kernel: 2.6.18.2-34-default) by clinton (-3):

Works with ifup. With NetworkManager, if the WPA connection is dropped, then you need to do: modprobe -r ipw3945; modprobe ipw3945

Working PCI wireless cards on Fedora 7 i386 (kernel: 2.6.22.1-27.fc7) by fujisan (3):

Need to install ipw3945, ipw3945-kmdl, ipw3945-ucode, ipw3945d packages available at atrpms and fedora repositories.

Working PCI wireless cards on Ubuntu 7.04 i386 (kernel: 2.6.20-16-generic) by melusyne (0):

never tested

Working PCI wireless cards on Debian lenny/sid i386 (kernel: 2.6.22.2batchyx1.23) by Batchy (3):

need to install ipw3945

Working PCI wireless cards on Ubuntu 7.04 i386 (kernel: 2.6.20-16-generic) by Floxy (5):

Uses a closed firmware (blob) which is provided by Ubuntu since 6.10

Working PCI wireless cards on Fedora 7 i386 (kernel: 2.6.22.4-65.fc7) by betsubetsu (3):

need to install ipw3945, ipw3945d, ipw3945-ucode, ipw3945-kmdl, ieee80211-kmdl from atrpms

Working PCI wireless cards on Debian lenny/sid i386 (kernel: 2.6.22-2-core2) by romain (5):

ipw3945 driver and deamon.

Working PCI wireless cards on Debian lenny/sid i386 (kernel: 2.6.22-2-core2) by romain (5):

ipw3945 driver and deamon.

Working PCI wireless cards on Ubuntu 7.04 i386 (kernel: 2.6.20-16-generic) by slasherfun (5):

No problem

Working PCI wireless cards on openSUSE 10.2 i586 (kernel: 2.6.18.8-0.5-default) by chris (-3):

I have difficulty in setting this up in different environments

Working PCI wireless cards on Ubuntu 7.04 i386 (kernel: 2.6.20-16-generic) by mrafv (5):

With Intel's driver and proprietary firmware

Working PCI wireless cards on Gentoo Gentoo Base System release 2.0.0_rc4-r1 GenuineIntel (kernel: 2.6.22.9) by arlsair (5):

iwl3945 driver

Working PCI wireless cards on Debian lenny/sid x86_64 (kernel: 2.6.22-3-amd64) by OdyX (5):

At least with ipw3945 (binary deamon). I haven't tested iwl3945.

Working PCI wireless cards on Gentoo Gentoo Base System release 1.12.10 GenuineIntel (kernel: 2.6.23-gentoo-r3) by squat (-3):

no problem at home (802.11b AP) i can't get a proper DHCP address at work (802.11g AP)

Working PCI wireless cards on Mandriva Linux 2008.0 i586 (kernel: 2.6.22.12-laptop-1mdv) by tuxmal (3):

Need ipw3945 module and related firmware. At boot modure is loadedbut the deamon ipw945d does not started. Issue resolved with the suggestion found at http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=31745#c3 alias Mandriva Bugzilla bug #31745, commend #3.

Working PCI wireless cards on Debian lenny/sid i386 (kernel: 2.6.22.1-rt9) by Droscy (5):

Works also with wpa_supplicant with wext driver

Working PCI wireless cards on Debian lenny/sid i386 (kernel: 2.6.23.11-rt14-mandvb) by Droscy (5):

Both with ipw3945 and with iwl3945 Also wpa_supplican runs with wext driver

Working PCI wireless cards on Debian lenny/sid i386 (kernel: 2.6.26-1-686) by djsliders (3):

I need to install ipw3945 or iwl3945 driver

Working PCI wireless cards on Slackware 12.2.0 Slackware 12.2.0 (kernel: 2.6.27.8) by manu56 (0):

Not yet tested

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