On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 10:49:05PM +0000, Hassell, William wrote: > Hoping you can help. > I installed SUSE SLES 12 SP1 on a Sony Vaio laptop. > To my surprise, everything is working with the exception of the wireless > device. > It is an Intel WIFI 4965 AGN device and it works fine with Windows 7 OS. > > I have checked that the proper firmware is in /lib/firmware and dmesg shows > the device is discovered at boot time but no kernel module is loaded. > > I see that there is a module iwlwifi in this distro but no iwlegacy. > Do I need this? If so, how do I go about getting this wireless device to > work?
You need iwl4965 and iwlegacy modules. IWL 4965 is pretty old device, hence distribution might not compile/provide those modules. Stanislaw
