Re: IWL5000

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

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Tomas Winkler <tomasw@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Fix: iwlwifi-2.6.git