Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless intel 4965 howto

2009-02-23 Thread Vladimir Rusinov 
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Alexander Puchmayr 
alexander.puchm...@linznet.at wrote:

 Hi there!

 Is there a working howto of how to get the wireless connection to work?
 Its a built-in chipset, intel 4965AG, and it was working with kernel
 2.6.24,
 but I fail with any kernel newer. 2.6.26 had serious problems with
 rfkill-switch, and the only way for me was to unload the driver module,
 switch on the wifi-interface, load module again and then it worked. A
 little bit clumsy, but it worked.


Oh, you are lucky, I've fixed this problem some minutes ago and now I see
your message.
You probably have something like 'failed to load firmware' on your dmegs.
So, you have to go to http://intellinuxwireless/, download firmware for your
chip, unpack it and copy to /lib/firmware.

HTH

-- 
Vladimir Rusinov
http://greenmice.info/

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless intel 4965 howto

2009-02-23 Thread Neil Bothwick 
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:26:18 +0300, Vladimir Rusinov wrote:

 You probably have something like 'failed to load firmware' on your
 dmegs. So, you have to go to http://intellinuxwireless/, download
 firmware for your chip, unpack it and copy to /lib/firmware.

Or emerge net-wireless/iwl4965-ucode


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Handy Guide to Modern Science:
   1. If it's green or it wiggles, it's biology.
   2. If it stinks, it's chemistry.
   3. If it doesn't work, it's physics.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless intel 4965 howto

2009-02-21 Thread Alexander Puchmayr 
Hi there!

Sorry Alejandro, but that link didn't help very much...

iwconfig shows:

wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn  ESSID:
  Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
  Tx-Power=off
  Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2352 B
  Encryption key:87A7-2DD9-4D   Security mode:open
  Power Management:off
  Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
  Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
  Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

'dmesg' shows the following:

iwlagn :14:00.0: PCI INT A - GSI 19 (level, low) - IRQ 19
iwlagn :14:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was 0x40100102,   
   writing 0x40100106)
firmware: requesting iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode
iwlagn: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch
wlan0: Failed to config new SSID to the low-level driver
iwlagn: Error sending REPLY_WEPKEY: enqueue_hcmd failed: -5
mac80211-phy0: failed to set key (0, ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff) to hardware (-5)
wlan0: Failed to config new SSID to the low-level driver
iwlagn :14:00.0: PCI INT A disabled

-- again, this rfkill-issue. The switch is in on position, the LED in the 
display shows active, but the driver thinks its off :-(

Try to enable it manually:

iwconfig wlan0 txpower on

iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn  ESSID:
  Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
  Tx-Power=-1 dBm
  Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2352 B
  Encryption key:87A7-2DD9-4D   Security mode:open
  Power Management:off
  Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
  Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
  Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

OK, looks better (At least we have TX-power now), lets try to scan the 
area ...

iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down

And now ???


Thanks for suggestions


Am Freitag, 20. Februar 2009 schrieb Alejandro:
 2009/2/20 Alexander Puchmayr alexander.puchm...@linznet.at

  Hi there!
 
  Is there a working howto of how to get the wireless connection to work?
  Its a built-in chipset, intel 4965AG, and it was working with kernel
  2.6.24,
  but I fail with any kernel newer. 2.6.26 had serious problems with
  rfkill-switch, and the only way for me was to unload the driver module,
  switch on the wifi-interface, load module again and then it worked. A
  little bit clumsy, but it worked.
 
  With 2.6.27 I entirely fail to get any connection at all. The
  wifi-interface
  refuses to accept any ESSID.
 
  So, is there a howto that describes how to get wireless to work? Maybe
  in a way so that I switch on the interface and no troubles with rfkill,
  etc?
 
  Thanks in advance
 Alex
 
 
  Take a look at the old gentoo wiki. i think is in
  www.gentoo-wiki.info.

 After kernel 2.6.26 yo have to change a couple of options and  start
 using the open intel driver for that chip


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Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless intel 4965 howto

2009-02-20 Thread Alejandro 
2009/2/20 Alexander Puchmayr alexander.puchm...@linznet.at

 Hi there!

 Is there a working howto of how to get the wireless connection to work?
 Its a built-in chipset, intel 4965AG, and it was working with kernel
 2.6.24,
 but I fail with any kernel newer. 2.6.26 had serious problems with
 rfkill-switch, and the only way for me was to unload the driver module,
 switch on the wifi-interface, load module again and then it worked. A
 little bit clumsy, but it worked.

 With 2.6.27 I entirely fail to get any connection at all. The
 wifi-interface
 refuses to accept any ESSID.

 So, is there a howto that describes how to get wireless to work? Maybe in a
 way so that I switch on the interface and no troubles with rfkill, etc?

 Thanks in advance
Alex


 Take a look at the old gentoo wiki. i think is in www.gentoo-wiki.info.
After kernel 2.6.26 yo have to change a couple of options and  start using
the open intel driver for that chip