Re: IWL5000

["Angel Mieres" <mieres.angel@gmail.com>]

Hi Tomas,

With the master branch, i recompile the kernel and it works. so now i
know that my problem is not in the NIC.
Is possible to get working this nic without having to recompile a
kernel? only with compat-wireless?



2008/7/28 Angel Mieres <mieres.angel@gmail.com>:
> Hi Tomas,
>
> Thanks for your reply. I will test master branch.
> The id's of the NIC are:
> `lspci -nv`
> 03:00.0 0280: 8086:4237
>        Subsystem: 8086:1211
>        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
>        Memory at f4300000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
>        Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 3
>        Capabilities: [d0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
>        Capabilities: [e0] Express Endpoint IRQ 0
>
> 2008/7/28 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
>>
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