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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 13:53:58 +0100
From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
To: "Hassell, William" <william.hassell@hpe.com>
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Subject: Re: iwlegacy kernel module with SLES 12 SP1
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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