Re: IWL5000

["Tomas Winkler" <tomasw@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Angel Mieres <mieres.angel@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Im trying to get working intel wifi link 5100 on ubuntu 8.0.4, but i
> have some problems; the procedure that i follow was:
>    1.- I try to get working with ndiswrapper, i get the lastest
> drivers availables for windowz, load the inf file,
>     check that device was recognize by ndiswrapper(installed & device
> present), but when i load the ndiswrapper module, it appears:
>     "unknown symbol: ntoskrnl.exe:'KeBugCheck'; couldn't prepare
> driver 'netw5x32'"
>      So, i decide to take a look of compat-wireless project that
> support this driver(right?).
>    2.- I get the firmware of iwl5000, copy the firmware on
> /lib/firmware, i get the latest compat-wireless-2.6 tar file, after
> this,
>       I compile the drivers(make && make install), i try load the
> driver; at dmesg it appears that ipw4965 loads perfectly but the led
> of the wifi, it doesn't work and
>       no one devices appear to be installed.
>
> So, someone have this NIC working? Please help me a bit. All
> suggestions are welcome.
> Thanks guys

Use iwlwif-2.6.git master branch. Merging into wireless-testing.git is
rather stalled right now.
If your devices is not recognized please send me the devices ids of your card.
Thanks
Tomas