Intel WiFi Link 5100AGN

Ski_K2 · September 6, 2008, 11:17pm

Suse 11 64 doesn’t detect this card.

Can anyone tell me how I might get it working?

Thanks

deltaflyer44 · September 7, 2008, 9:10am

have a look in the wireless section, especially the two stickies at the beginning, lots of useful info there

Andy
p.s. this would be better in that section, might get noticed by the wireless guru’s

Ski_K2 · September 7, 2008, 5:55pm

Thanks Andy!

Can you move the thread to the wireless section?

lspci
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Device 4237

lspci -n
02:00.0 0280: 8086:4237

dmesg has no reference to the device that I can find

deltaflyer44 · September 7, 2008, 6:23pm

Moved at request of OP to wireless

Andy

Ski_K2 · September 9, 2008, 10:41pm

Need help with determining if firmware is installed.

According to the note below support should be included in my running kernel. iwlwifi

But my card is not detected for wifi. It is for Bluetooth

Sticky info:

/sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Cantiga Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cantiga PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0649 (rev a1)
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Device 4237
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
06:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): JMicron Technologies, Inc. Device 2380
06:00.1 System peripheral: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Device 2382
06:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Device 2381
06:00.3 System peripheral: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Device 2383
06:00.4 System peripheral: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Device 2384

dv7t:~ # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

pan0 no wireless extensions.

dmesg has no reference to it that I can find.

Found this note searching

Intel would like to announce Linux support for Wifi Link 5000 and
5100 Series Adapters under iwlwifi driver (iwlagn.ko)

The Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100 Series and 5300 is a families of IEEE
802.11a/b/g/Draft-N1 wireless network
adapters that operate in both the 2.4 GHz and 5.0 GHz spectra. These
adapters, available
in both PCIe* Mini Card and Half Mini Card form factor
5100 1x2 MIMO up to 300Mbps
5300 3x3 MIMO up to 450Mbps

Note: in 2.6.27-rc3 the MIMO and QoS features are not operational due
to recent changes in MQ. This has probably hit also other wireless
drivers We are working on resolving these issues.

The best known working driver can be located in iwl500 branch of
iwlwifi-2.6.git
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/iwlwifi-2.6.git iwl5000

It is based 2.6.26-rc6 wireless-testing kernel.
We will publish compat-wireless that works with this release for easy
back porting to earlier stable kernels.

The driver requires firmware that can be downloaded from
Intel® Wireless WiFi Link drivers for Linux*

pci.ids were already sent to Linux PCI ID Repository

8086 Intel Corporation
4232 Wifi Link 5100 Wireless Adapter
8086 1201 5100ABGN Mini Card
8086 1205 5100BG Mini Card
8086 1206 5100ABG Mini Card
8086 1301 5100ABGN Half Mini Card
8086 1305 5100BG Half Mini Card
8086 1306 5100ABG Half Mini Card
8086 1321 5100ABGN Half Mini Card Dell
8086 1326 5100ABG Half Mini Card Dell
4235 Wifi Link 5300 Wireless Adapter
8086 1001 5300ABGN Mini Card
8086 1101 5300ABGN Half Mini Card
8086 1121 5300ABGN Half Mini Card Dell
4236 Wifi Link 5300 Wireless Adapter
8086 1011 5300ABGN Mini Card Lenovo
4237 Wifi Link 5100 Wireless Adapter
8086 1211 5100ABGN Mini Card Lenovo
8086 1216 5100ABG Mini Card Lenovo

mr_lukes · September 25, 2008, 5:08pm

I have the same problem with Lenovo x200.

I updated kernel to 2.6.27 and right now my wireless is detected. I can see wireless when I type ‘iwconfig’ but i cannot connect to any network.

I do not see this wireless in any other place (e.g. Network Icon in the gnome panel) beside ‘iwconfig’ result.

Any idea what is wrong?

deltaflyer44 · September 25, 2008, 6:24pm

2 questions:

1 ) did you configure the device in YaST - network devices - network settings ?
2 ) have you tried changing channels on the router,if you have done 1 )

Andy

mr_lukes · September 25, 2008, 8:46pm

Yes, I did 1) and I did not do 2)

But I tried to use this laptop in 3 different networks (home, work and Strabucks) and nothing…

seld · October 18, 2008, 2:46pm

If your wireless card is detected and iwconfig shows it, I guess it works.
The only problem seem to be getting some network manager to work.

For me the default ‘Networked Manager’ was NOT working as I want , so I

choosed in Yast -> Network Setting Traditional method with ifup
left my wireless card unconfigured in Yast
installed wicd
started wicd daemon (you can also make it start automatically via Yast -> System Services)
connected successfully to my wireless network using wicd GUI

Also there is wifi-radar wireless network manager
(It works better, than default manager, but sometimes just fails to connect,
and I never was able to connect with it to my WPA2 home wireless network)

As a monitor, to see whether network connection works or not i use knemo.

Ski_K2 · October 24, 2008, 9:40pm

I read somewhere in the thousands of posts on wifi cards not working in Linux that my card requires the iwlan driver.

I performed this little experiment:

Downloaded the 11.1 Beta 3 Live-CD

Booted to the Live-CD

Yast > Network Devices > Network Settings.

My 5100AGN was not detected.

Add > Wireless > wlan0 > Module (entered iwlan since noting appeared in the select list) > open > ssid (left blank) > Finish

Network Manager now has wireless enabled and I was prompted for a Default Keyring password and my WAP password the viola I am connect perfectly

Now for those lurking Grus:

How do I install the iwlan module in 11.0
Will it work with my running kernel - 2.6.25.16-0.1 ?

???
Thanks in advance

deltaflyer44 · October 25, 2008, 9:18am

How do I install the iwlan module in 11.0
install via YaST

Andy

Ski_K2 · October 25, 2008, 3:45pm

Yast doesn’t see any packages available or installed with iwlan in the name or iwlagn.

My repos:

Index of /distribution/11.0/repo/non-oss
Index of /distribution/11.0/repo/oss
Index of /repositories/home:/schmolle1980/openSUSE_11.0
http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.0
Index of /pub/packman/suse/11.0
Index of /repositories/home:/schmolle1980/openSUSE_11.0_Update
Index of /update/11.0
Index of /pub/videolan/vlc/SuSE/11.0/

gemini91 · October 28, 2008, 9:39pm

iwlagn is part of the kernel. It is in 2.6.27 and up.
I don’t know where you get it with out the kernel.

seld · October 29, 2008, 7:52pm

I think you need to install iwl5000-ucode.
Try to do it from one of these repositories
Webpin - iwl5000-ucode

Ski_K2 · October 29, 2008, 8:52pm

Thanks Seld.

I already have that installed.

Do you know what the module name is to use in Yast for this device?

seld · October 29, 2008, 11:04pm

I use iwl4965-ucode, and the module name is iwl4965
(it was detected automatically in yast).
So I guess for iwl5000-ucode it should be iwl5000.

And also If you want to stick with openSUSE 11.0 kernel versions,
I would recommend you to update to 2.6.25.18-0.2
(It’s now available in official update repository),
because my wireless card did not work with 2.6.25.16* kernel version.

Ski_K2 · October 29, 2008, 11:16pm

I did upgrade to the latest kernel this moring.

I’ll try iwl5000.

Thanks

Ski_K2 · October 30, 2008, 1:37am

iwl5000 doesn’t work either.

modprobe iwl5000 gives module not found.

In /lib/firmware I have iwlwifi-5000-ucode

??

user · November 10, 2008, 5:35am

Hello folks!
I am using linuxes for quite a while, but this Intel 5100 is beyond my capabilities.

I have Sony Vaio SR 290 and I installed OpenSuse 11, and updated
stuff from online repositories. Here is uname:

Linux linux-568d 2.6.25.18-0.2-default #1 SMP 2008-10-21 16:30:26 +0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

lspci reports:


05:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Device 4232
05:00.0 0280: 8086:4232

Which is about the same that Windows Vista says in its
System report (the card works fine under Vista).
OK, I installed iwl5000 firmware.
There is nothing in dmesg (grep-ing for wlan, wifi, iwl, eth1, and what not).
And sure iwconfig finds nothing. Yast doesn’t see any wireless either.

Here is the basic question:
Is it possible to set up this card under the default 2.6.25 kernel
(+installing something additional, somebody mentioned above iwlan?)
or one really needs 2.6.27 kernel?

Problem with installing new kernel is that I am afraid that my
ATI Radeon HD 3470 will stop working, and I already spent 5 hours
before making that properly working.
Anyway, if that is unavoidable which kernel then to grab?
I am completely lost in what are differences of various kernels at


http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/

Thanks!

oldcpu · November 10, 2008, 8:22pm

Back in the old days, I would make a copy of the /etc/X11/xfree86.conf (which is now replaced by the /etc/X11xorg.conf) and when I upgraded to a new kernel, I would install similar driver that was built against new kernel, but copy in old /etc/X11/xorg.conf ( or /etc/X11/xfree86.conf dependant on how many years we go back) and things would work fine. …

I’m trying to order a Dell with the Intel WiFi Link 5300AGN, and similar to the 5100 AGN I believe it best one have the 2.6.27 kernel. I note reports in Ubuntu-8.10 (which has 2.6.27 kernel) that this wireless “just works”. Any Intel WiFi Link 5100 vs 5300 experience - Notebook Forums and Laptop Discussion

If you don’t mind re-installing openSUSE a couple of times, then you could install openSUSE-11.1 beta4 now as a dual boot, and then 11.1 gold mastered version in mid-Dec. Use 11.1 beta4 to write bug reports if need on your wireless.