On 10/16/2011 08:33 PM, werner wrote:
I have to wait until the friend with the laptop comes back, perhaps this week. Then I can look what wireless card is in it. However, now I remember me: that laptop worked only good since 2.6.39 with the new kernel-embedded modules. Before, it didn't work normally, i.e. on booting the wireless almost never didn't switch on; only ocasionally . And, beside of kernel 2.6.39, and the normal wifi software, I still had him to install a file iwlwifi-1000-3.ucode or .5 ucode (i'm not sure, the number can also be 5000), and I had the problem to search long time for that file because one find only .2 or .4 in internet but what don't work at that wifi card. You could improve the kernel-module so that everything is included so that one don't need to search such files.
That will not happen. In fact, the trend is from having firmware be a part of the driver to having it be external.
I don't know what distro you use, but mine (openSUSE) maintains a package called kernel-firmware that contains all the redistributable firmware that is available from tne linux-firmware git tree. If that package is installed, then you do not have to search for firmware in most cases. If your distro does not have such a package, then complain or find another distro.
Then, with this kernel and that file however, it worked without any problem. I hope from these informations you can find out what wifi card or what driver is in the laptop.
We can tell that you have an Intel card, but not much more. Larry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
