The last part of getting my Lenovo T400 fully functional is the wifi.
"lspci" shows "03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless
5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection". I tried to follow instructions
but am getting no sign of wifi at all. Both "ifconfig" and "ip" only
show eth0 and lo. In "make menuconfig" I have
Networking support > Wireless
--- Wireless
<*> cfg80211 - wireless configuration API
[ ] nl80211 testmode command
[ ] enable developer warnings
[*] enable powersave by default
[ ] cfg80211 DebugFS entries
[ ] cfg80211 wireless extensions compatibility
<*> Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (mac80211)
Default rate control algorithm (Minstrel) --->
[ ] Enable mac80211 mesh networking support
-*- Enable LED triggers
[ ] Export mac80211 internals in DebugFS
[ ] Trace all mac80211 debug messages
[ ] Select mac80211 debugging features ----
Device Drivers > Network device support > Wireless LAN
--- Wireless LAN
[ ] ADMtek devices
[ ] Atheros/Qualcomm devices
[ ] Atmel devices
[ ] Broadcom devices
[ ] Cisco devices
[*] Intel devices
< > Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection
< > Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2915ABG Network Connection
< > Intel Wireless WiFi 4965AGN (iwl4965)
< > Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection (iwl3945)
<*> Intel Wireless WiFi Next Gen AGN - Wireless-N/Advanced-N/Ultimate-N
(iwlwifi)
<*> Intel Wireless WiFi DVM Firmware support
< > Intel Wireless WiFi MVM Firmware support
Debugging Options ---
The <Help> for "Intel Wireless WiFi Next Gen AGN... etc" points to
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi#firmware which
points to iwlwifi-5000-ucode-5.4.A.11.tar.gz that supports iwldvm on the
5100AGN
Device Drivers > Generic Driver Options > Firmware loader
-*- Firmware loading facility
(iwlwifi-5000-ucode-5.4.A.11/iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode) Build named firmware
blobs into the kernel binary
(/lib/firmware) Firmware blobs root directory
[ ] Enable the firmware sysfs fallback mechanism
[ ] Enable compressed firmware support
The kernel build goes smoothly. What am I missing?
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Walter Dnes <[email protected]>
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