Re: 3.1-rc9 wifi problem

[Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>]

On 10/16/2011 08:33 PM, werner wrote:
> I have to wait until the friend with the laptop comes back, perhaps this week.
> Then I can look what wireless card is in it.
>
> However, now I remember me: that laptop worked only good since 2.6.39 with the
> new kernel-embedded modules. Before, it didn't work normally, i.e. on booting
> the wireless almost never didn't switch on; only ocasionally .
>
>
> And, beside of kernel 2.6.39, and the normal wifi software, I still had him to
> install a file iwlwifi-1000-3.ucode or .5 ucode (i'm not sure, the number can
> also be 5000), and I had the problem to search long time for that file because
> one find only .2 or .4 in internet but what don't work at that wifi card. You
> could improve the kernel-module so that everything is included so that one don't
> need to search such files.

That will not happen. In fact, the trend is from having firmware be a part of 
the driver to having it be external.

I don't know what distro you use, but mine (openSUSE) maintains a package called 
kernel-firmware that contains all the redistributable firmware that is available 
from tne linux-firmware git tree. If that package is installed, then you do not 
have to search for firmware in most cases. If your distro does not have such a 
package, then complain or find another distro.

> Then, with this kernel and that file however, it worked without any problem.
>
> I hope from these informations you can find out what wifi card or what driver is
> in the laptop.

We can tell that you have an Intel card, but not much more.

Larry