Hi,
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
I need help getting my Intel Wifi 5100 card working on my Elive installation.
I recently removed an installation of Fedora 11 64-bit from my Vaio VGN-Z570N because I was getting frustrated with the fact that sound would go good or bad with every single update of the installation. I use Audacity quite a bit, and sound had to be reliable.
I have Elive 1.9.34 (I think) on my home laptop, a Vaio VGN-TX770P, and been extremely happy with it. So I decided this past weekend to just trash the Fedora 11 installation on the Z-laptop for a brand new install of Elive 1.9.43. So far extremely happy except for the wireless issue.
During the installation it told me I had to rely on 'ndiswrapper' because there was no driver in Elive to support my wireless card, which is an Intel Wifi 5100.
I've done all the research I could possible try, and still can't get it to work. Please keep in mind that I'm not the most advanced Linux user, but decent enough to follow some instructions, and go from there.
I found the following post on another Elive newsgroup but it was not that helpful:
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bugs.elivecd.org]
I've found plenty install information on using 'ndiswrapper', but have had issues finding the '.inf' file for my wireless card.
More confusing is that Intel Linux Wireless site offers information that my card is supported in kernel 2.6.26 and higher:
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www.intellinuxwireless.org]
I can't get ndiswrapper to work, and I can't seem to find good details on how to make the card work with a newer Elive kernel. On top of that, each time I start Elive, I have to go to the Internet Configurator and connect manually my wired connection, even though it states that it should 'auto connect'.
If anyone with some expertise can point me in the right direction, I'll be immensely appreciative of your assistance.
Thank you.
Nelson
Other notes:
0. the wifi button on the laptop is "on", and the LED shows that it is on; to cover all the bases
1. contents of /lib/firmware show the following drive available
iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode
2. ifconfig -a
eth0 ...
lo ...
3. iwconfig (no mention of wlan0)
lo no wireless extensions
eth0 no wireless extensions
4. lsmod output does not appear to show iwlagn loaded
5. "rmmod iwlagn" command tells me that 'iwlagn' does not exist in /proc/modules
6. Compilation of "compat-wireless-2009-09-14" fails
implicit declaration of function 'request_threaded_irq
7. modprobe iwl[tab][tab] shows:
iwl3945 iwl4965 iwlcore
8. I did do an 'apt-get build-essential' to try to build 'ndiswrapper' and 'compat-wireless'; both fail during compilation
9. I will continue to work for at least another couple of days, but can't be without wireless on this laptop to work in the office... might have to just simply go back and miss this great Distro;
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/15/2009 11:30AM by nene.