On Sun, 2011-10-16 at 19:16 -0700, Larry Finger wrote: > 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 > Not knowing much about what problem you encounter, but you can find all the latest intel WiFi firmware at http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/?n=Downloads Thanks Wey -- 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
