Intel Wireless 4965agn Issues

I am having issues with my wirless card and am hoping some of the gurus here can help me out


To start with I am using an Intel Wireless 4965 AG or AGN network card on Suse 10.3

It is a new laptop and the wireless card itself works fine under vista, so i know my issue is not the card but more my configuration
( or lack of mabey )

K well let me get started with what i know and have tried

• Module being used for wireless card is iwl4965
  
• The same thing happened with my last laptop with ipw2200 on 10.2 and allowing ifup to run my network is what fixed it however that didn't work here
  
• Wireless light on laptop not comming on
  
• Set to Static IP address
  
• Yast Network Card area sees the device as Intel Lenovo Thinkpad T61 ( but it's actually an r61 ) but when i go into network manager i see it as the correct card name
  
• Have Tried Activating the device at boot , on Connection and on Hotplug with a restart and manual intervention between each and had no luck getting the light to come on or connecting
  
• Can see wireless card inside of Yasts Network Card area and can also View available Networks either Network Manager or ifup are controlling
  
• I am using WPA security ( router is set to accept wpa or wpa2 in hexdecimal)
  
• I still get the same issues when no security is on the network
  
• When I do " ifup wlan0 -o debug" I get expected information like the ipaddress and submetmask , but also a warning that WPA may not be suported by the device ( i know it is in windows dunno about with linux )
• When I do an ifconfig I have been assigned an ip address
  
• When i plug in the ethernet everything works flawlessly so i know the gateway and dns are setup correctly ( though i find it weird the new network card manager doesn't seperate these options for the ethernet and wlan cards)
  
  the curve ball --->
• Can see all the wireless networks in range

I have tried all kinds of combinations to try and fix this isssue but have gone as far as my knowledge can take me i think. The fact i can see the networks through Network Manger makes me think the issue is security related which i ruled out by disablign that on the network or it has to do with it trying 802.11 n Draft as the default connection mode and my configuration has an issue with this ( never used draft n before).

Anyone know what else i should be looking at and for ? Also shouldn't the light on my laptop come on any time the wireless card is active .. whether i am connected to a network or not ? I have done everythign I did when i had this issue with the ipw2200 and more so if anyone can help i would really appreciate it

thankyou very much in advance If you need anymore info from me just let me know and i will do my best to provide as detailed as i can

A little more info for you ...

The following outputs are given for the command proceeding the quote


ifup wlan0 -o debug

wlan0 device: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN Network Connection (rev 61)
wlan0 warning: WPA configured but may be unsupported
wlan0 warning: by this device
wlan0 warning: wpa_supplicant already running on interface
Handling Index <>:
IPADDR = 10.1.1.178
PREFIXLEN = 24
CHECK_DUPLICATE_IP = no
executing additional global start script if-up.d/50-ntp
Checking for network time protocol daemon (NTPD): unused
executing additional global start script if-up.d/SuSEfirewall2[/b]

lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controlle
r Hub (rev 0c)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrat
ed Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Grap
hics Controller (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Contolle
r #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controll
er #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Control
ler #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller
(rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (r
ev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (r
ev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (r
ev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (r
ev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (r
ev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controll
er #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controll
er #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controll
er #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Control ler #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Contro ller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHC I Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN Networ k Connection (rev 61)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ether net PCI Express (rev 02)
15:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ba)
15:00.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 04)
15:00.2 Generic system peripheral [Class 0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/ MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 21)
15:00.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 11)
15:00.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (re v 11)
15:00.5 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 11)
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iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Retry min limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption keyff
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

eth0 no wireless extensions.[/b]

From what i understand about suse i woudl say that my card itself apears to be workign fine , and it is a configuration option that i am missing but darned if i know where or what it is

Module being used for wireless card is iwl4965 [/b]

try changing to the old intel driver, it appears the iwl driver shows these symptoms & you need to change to the old driver to get it working

andy

Which old intel driver sorry ?

iwlwifi ? or the ipw3965 version , or do you just mean load up the previous release of the driver i am using ? I have been reading bad things about the driver peopel where usign before , things like dropouts and or weakened connection over a span of time for some reason. Anyways will give it a shot cause even rebooting to get my network back at this poitn is better than what i got hehe. At this point i don't even care about connectign with draft N just want to get it online but it would ofcourse be great

ATM i am testing out loading kernel 2.6.22.12 supposedly all versions of the kernel after that are totally supporting all features of these wifi cards so will have a look c and report back

Thanx for your help deltaflyer

I thought I would leave a bit of documentation for anyone else experiencing this in the future ,

I started off by "cheating " and using ndiswrapper and the w29n51.inf file inside of the Intel windows xp drivers zip , which got me online very quickly and with no hassles, using wpa2 .

Not being a Huge fan of ndiswrapper normally i continued to try and solve the solution nativly with suse and after a bit of chopping and changing of drivers i found a set that made my card work. The combination i ended up with was iwlwifi-1.1.18, mac80211-10.0.0 and kernel:2.6.22.12

it required the combination of the three to work at it's best , a few other drivers worked but had a few dropout or speed issues.

After running some tests on the network i was shocked at myself but have decided to stick with ndiswrapper for now as it seems to give me the most stable and fastest connection to my access point , though i hope that there isn't too much delay in the iwl drivers as the issue they have in their most recent drivers seems like it won't be a huge thing to overcome and hopefully they have already addressed the speed and reliability issues.

Good luck to anyone that is in the same boat i was

I thought I would leave a bit of documentation for anyone else experiencing this in the future ,

I started off by "cheating " and using ndiswrapper and the w29n51.inf file inside of the Intel windows xp drivers zip , which got me online very quickly and with no hassles, using wpa2 .

Not being a Huge fan of ndiswrapper normally i continued to try and solve the solution nativly with suse and after a bit of chopping and changing of drivers i found a set that made my card work. The combination i ended up with was iwlwifi-1.1.18, mac80211-10.0.0 and kernel:2.6.22.12

it required the combination of the three to work at it's best , a few other drivers worked but had a few dropout or speed issues.

After running some tests on the network i was shocked at myself but have decided to stick with ndiswrapper for now as it seems to give me the most stable and fastest connection to my access point , though i hope that there isn't too much delay in the iwl drivers as the issue they have in their most recent drivers seems like it won't be a huge thing to overcome and hopefully they have already addressed the speed and reliability issues.

Good luck to anyone that is in the same boat i was
[/b]

Hello,

I have the same card, and with a few issues as you mentioned, however i am not even close to understanding what you did.

Could you give it a "guide for dummies" on how were you able to accomplish this. I have installed several drivers and actually at one point i thought it was solved and i have been living with it for a while but the wireless is intermittent and basically annoying.

Thank you.