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Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG wifi card supported but not loaded by default

Bug #68658 reported by BrianCary
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Bug Description

When doing a fresh install of Ubuntu Edgy 6.10, with a Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network card - the card is not detected by the install process (using the Alternate install CD); however, the card is supported by ubuntu as shown here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessCardsSupported. The card does show up when doing a "sudo lshw" command.

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Peter Liedler (peter-liedler) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report.

Could you please check if the package linux-restricted-modules is
installed?

Do you use kde - kubuntu?

Thank you
Peter

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Andrew Ash (ash211) wrote :

This bug seems to be a duplicate of bug 62452. Try running
$sudo ln -s /sbin/ipw3945d-2.6.17-10-386 /sbin/ipw3945d-2.6.17-10-generic
from https://bugs.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.17/+bug/62452/comments/13

I'm marking this a duplicate of that bug.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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