Lenovo T61 Wireless WiFi 4965AGN not working with RC1

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#1

I just bought a new Lenovo T61. It comes with the Intel 4965 wifi nic.

Unfortunately, the supplied driver for this card does not work with kernels
above 2.6.24, and RC1 comes with 2.6.25.

There is a specific posting at Intel’s site:‘Intel® Wireless WiFi Link
4965AGN’(http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/?p=iwlwifi) that says that the
supplied driver does NOT work with Linux kernels 2.6.24 and above. Trying
the instructions to download and make a new driver don’t work for me, I get
errors when I try to do it.

Does anyone know if there will be an updated driver in the general release?
I really like what I’ve seen so far of 11.0 - very fast, especially with
Yast, and would hate to have to back-level to 10.3.

Bob Smits, Ladysmith, BC

“What a wonder is USENET; such wholesale production of conjecture from such
a trifling investment in fact.” – Carl S. Gutekunst

#2

Grab the ipw driver - i think it’s in GNOME stable or something. That wasn’t included by default, but once I installed it, wireless worked fine on my end.

#3

toharris wrote:

>
> Grab the ipw driver - i think it’s in GNOME stable or something. That
> wasn’t included by default, but once I installed it, wireless worked
> fine on my end.
>
>

Well, I added Gnome stable, and there it was, but adding it made no
difference to having a working wireless connection. Are you also using a
Lenovo T61?

–
Bob Smits, Ladysmith, BC

“What a wonder is USENET; such wholesale production of conjecture from such
a trifling investment in fact.” – Carl S. Gutekunst

#4

Hello

I am on a Dell XPS 1330 with Intel 4965AGN Wireless.

My RC1 install has kernel - 2.6.25.4-8-pae

Wireless for me has been flawless out of the box.

#5

I have the same wireless card in my laptop. Its working outof box on rc1. Only thing you need to make it work is install following firmware which should come with rc1.

#lsmod | grep iwl4965
iwl4965 116448 0
firmware_class 13696 3 microcode,iwl4965,pcmcia
mac80211 178196 1 iwl4965

I have not tested with WPA2, but its definitly working with WEP.

Good luck.

#6

Im using WPA2

#7

Then I can not offer too much help here. I do not have an environment to test.

Good luck.

#8

chinese ys wrote:

>
> I have the same wireless card in my laptop. Its working outof box on
> rc1. Only thing you need to make it work is install following firmware
> which should come with rc1.
>
> #lsmod | grep iwl4965
> iwl4965 116448 0
> firmware_class 13696 3 microcode,iwl4965,pcmcia
> mac80211 178196 1 iwl4965
>
> I have not tested with WPA2, but its definitly working with WEP.
>
> Good luck.
>
>
Well, this is what I have installed…

linux-27h2:/home/rsmits # lsmod | grep iwl4965
iwl4965 129248 0
firmware_class 25984 3 microcode,pcmcia,iwl4965
mac80211 190484 1 iwl4965

On my Computer, it definitely is not working. I am using WPA. WEP is too
easy to crack.

–
Bob Smits, Ladysmith, BC

“What a wonder is USENET; such wholesale production of conjecture from such
a trifling investment in fact.” – Carl S. Gutekunst

#9

Sorry for confusion… I am replying I have WPA2 working on this NIC. I was not original poster.

#10

toharris wrote:

>
> Grab the ipw driver - i think it’s in GNOME stable or something. That
> wasn’t included by default, but once I installed it, wireless worked
> fine on my end.
>
>
That did it, my friend.

I had a little detour when somehow my encryption was changed from WPA to WEP
but after correcting that, it works now!!!

Thanks Again!!!

Bob Smits, Ladysmith, BC

“What a wonder is USENET; such wholesale production of conjecture from such
a trifling investment in fact.” – Carl S. Gutekunst