10.2 & 4965 Intel Wireless

Hello all,

I got a new laptop the other day and I've had a lot of fun playing with it. But now it's time that it starts to work. I put Suse 10.2 (x86_64) and noticed a few problems. My nvidia drives (for basic GUI support) weren't loaded at all and had to do some configurations to get it going. However the one that I couldn't get working was the wifi. The card is a Intel 4965 AGN wifi. No auto support, ndiswrapper didn't like the inf files from vista or direct from the intel site (" "device" section wasn't found", I know I could edit it but I'm lazy) and intel's solution on their site didn't work due to suse configuration of the kernel, or at lease that's what i think.
I noticed that 10.3 beta2 has support for the 4965 card and tried that (also thought I would do some beta testing for fun.) but as has been reported the config doesn't stick for the wireless in beta 1 & 2.

Is there a way I can pull the beta intel 4965 driver off the 10.3 and use it in 10.2?
Thanks for any ideas

Hello all,

I got a new laptop the other day and I've had a lot of fun playing with it. But now it's time that it starts to work. I put Suse 10.2 (x86_64) and noticed a few problems. My nvidia drives (for basic GUI support) weren't loaded at all and had to do some configurations to get it going. However the one that I couldn't get working was the wifi. The card is a Intel 4965 AGN wifi. No auto support, ndiswrapper didn't like the inf files from vista or direct from the intel site (" "device" section wasn't found", I know I could edit it but I'm lazy) and intel's solution on their site didn't work due to suse configuration of the kernel, or at lease that's what i think.
I noticed that 10.3 beta2 has support for the 4965 card and tried that (also thought I would do some beta testing for fun.) but as has been reported the config doesn't stick for the wireless in beta 1 & 2.

Is there a way I can pull the beta intel 4965 driver off the 10.3 and use it in 10.2?
Thanks for any ideas
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I'm having problems with the same wireless as you on my new laptop. There is a linux version at http://intellinuxwireless.org/. You need to install some mac80211 subsystem, which is included in kernel version 2.6.22. I'm trying now to get that kernel to work before I try building the drivers.

yea I also tried the intels site for the mac stuff but it didn't happen due to suse putting things in odd places. I installed automake, make and makeconf but it wasn't happy. There's got to be some way of pulling over the iwlwifi from 10.3 .
Just when I was about to say that I would be totally suse loyal again.

Vista drivers do not work with Ndiswrapper. If you intend to use it, you need to find and use Windows XP drivers.

Vista drivers do not work with Ndiswrapper. If you intend to use it, you need to find and use Windows XP drivers.
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Ok, I'll double check that I got the XP drivers tonight. But I guess there isn't a way to get the iwlwifi dirver working from 4965 Intel Wifi driver (iwlwifi)

Yep still don't work in XP drivers. Downloaded straight from the intel website.

 ndiswrapper -i NETw4x64.INF
installing netw4x64 ...
couldn't find models section "Device" -
installation may be incomplete

and what did seem to work but didn't

ndiswrapper -l
installed drivers:
netw4k32****************driver installed, hardware (8086:4233) present
w29n51**********driver installed (alternate driver: ipw2200)
iwconfig
lo********no wireless extensions.

eth0******no wireless extensions.

sit0******no wireless extensions.

and yes I did do the yast setup.

You used the driver below and it did not work?

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/detail_des...amp;prdmap=2753

netw4k32 driver installed, hardware (8086:4233) present
w29n51 driver installed (alternate driver: ipw2200)[/code][/b]

The XP driver (netw4x64.inf, mentioned before) is defective, since it references the Device section but doesn't include it. It's probably meant for 64-bit operating systems anyway, considering the driver naming scheme I've seen recently. The Vista driver (w29n51) is installed properly but isn't loading the hardware properly, otherwise it would say hardware present.

So both of those drivers are faulty. Is there a netw4x32.inf file available?

But I guess there isn't a way to get the iwlwifi dirver working from 4965 Intel Wifi driver (iwlwifi)[/b]

I never said there wasn't a way to get the iwlwifi drivers working, I only said that if you decided to continue using ndiswrapper, you would need XP drivers.

If you'd like to use the iwlwifi drivers, you will need to get a new kernel. Try installing one from this page:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/...E_Factory/i586/

After downloading it, execute the "rpm -ivh nameofpackage.rpm" program, replacing "nameofpackage.rpm" with the actual name of the rpm. Those are 10.3 beta kernels, but they might work on 10.2. If that kernel boots nicely for you, you can begin using the iwlwifi drivers since the 2.6.22 kernel has the mac80211 subsystem.

Just when I was about to say that I would be totally suse loyal again.
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and yes I did do the yast setup.[/b]

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I'm aware that this is frustrating for you, but I would prefer you post without the attitude.
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I'm sorry if my post was offensive. My comments were simply ment as a bit of humour and assurance that I had done the configuration in Yast. Actually i'm finding this rather fun, I've explored many different distro's and keep returning to suse as it supports my video driver at the start and lets me have GUI support (Gentoo, Ubuntu, slack64 and fedora all didn't reconise my screen/video and didn't load any GUI support, at all). I'm also learning a lot about the networking cards and kernels that I didn't know.

Thank you for the links. I'll check on them now.

The driver zip file did offer a NETw4x32.INF file but it gave an invaild driver error on doing the
'ndiswrapper -l'. I was wondering if the 32 bit driver isn't working due to my installation being 64 bit? Maybe I can add the device section to the 64 bit driver if the kernel update doen't work.
I'll post back if my results are good

Sorry, I completely missed the part where you said you had a 64-bit installation. Ignore my comment about the x32.inf file, then.

You'll need to use this kernel for the update then.

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/...Factory/x86_64/