From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
To: "Hassell, William" <william.hassell@hpe.com>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: iwlegacy kernel module with SLES 12 SP1
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 13:53:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170127125358.GA2737@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DF4PR84MB007667FC0FD957BA7226C7EAF1770@DF4PR84MB0076.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>
On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 10:49:05PM +0000, Hassell, William wrote:
> Hoping you can help.
> I installed SUSE SLES 12 SP1 on a Sony Vaio laptop.
> To my surprise, everything is working with the exception of the wireless device.
> It is an Intel WIFI 4965 AGN device and it works fine with Windows 7 OS.
>
> I have checked that the proper firmware is in /lib/firmware and dmesg shows
> the device is discovered at boot time but no kernel module is loaded.
>
> I see that there is a module iwlwifi in this distro but no iwlegacy.
> Do I need this? If so, how do I go about getting this wireless device to work?
You need iwl4965 and iwlegacy modules. IWL 4965 is pretty old device,
hence distribution might not compile/provide those modules.
Stanislaw
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