IWL5000

IWL5000

[Angel Mieres]

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

Re: IWL5000

[Tomas Winkler]

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

Re: IWL5000

[Tomas Winkler]

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

Re: IWL5000

[Angel Mieres]

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
>>
>

Re: IWL5000

[Tomas Winkler]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Angel Mieres <mieres.angel@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

In general it's possible. I a little work is needed there as I've
renamed the module name.
Tomas

Re: IWL5000

[Angel Mieres]

Oh i see, now loads iwlagn module. So, this will be soon in compat-wireless?
Im trying to get this working without the kernel compilation because
im trying to do a home made firewall with ubuntu kernel.
My actual kernel have some features that this don't have so,
compat-wireless will be perfect for me.

Thanks a lot Tomas!

2008/7/28 Tomas Winkler <tomasw@gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Angel Mieres <mieres.angel@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> In general it's possible. I a little work is needed there as I've
> renamed the module name.
> Tomas
>