Wireless (IWL4965?) set up

Boof · #1 5th October 2008, 09:18 PM

I'm new to Fedora, and while I have Unix experience, it's mostly been on programming and file management and not on hardware management.

I have Fedora up and running on my Acer Extensa 5620Z (1.8 GHz, 250 GB, 3GB, Wireless G). Everything seems to be up and running fine... except the wireless.

It doesn't already recognize the wireless device (although it did for the ethernet), so when I go to try to add a new wireless device, I get a list of possible drivers none of which (as far as I can tell) match my hardware.

I read somewhere else that I need to use the IWL4965 driver. Can someone walk me through how to set it up as I've tried a few different things and nothing has worked so far?

Thanks.

Edit: Fedora 9, by the way.

Boof · #2 8th October 2008, 04:13 AM

Anyone? Anyone?

Bueller?

tskubala · #3 8th October 2008, 10:11 PM

Okay, first off, the iwl4965 should be automatically loaded, could you run the following commands and post the output?

Code:

/sbin/lspci

Code:

/sbin/lsmod

Code:

/sbin/iwconfig

Should get a better idea from the output what we're dealing with. FYI I have the same device and can compare to my own setup.

Tom.
--------

Boof · #4 10th October 2008, 05:31 AM

Thanks for the response, Tom.

Here's my output:

Quote:

Originally Posted by tskubala

Code:

/sbin/lspci

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #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 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #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 Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
0f:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller
0f:06.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
0f:06.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)
0f:06.3 SD Host controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller

Quote:

Code:

/sbin/lsmod

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by
vfat                   13056  1 
fat                    42784  1 vfat
bridge                 46104  0 
bnep                   14464  2 
rfcomm                 34576  4 
l2cap                  22272  16 bnep,rfcomm
bluetooth              47588  5 bnep,rfcomm,l2cap
fuse                   41116  5 
sunrpc                151412  3 
ipt_REJECT              6784  2 
nf_conntrack_ipv4      11396  2 
iptable_filter          6528  1 
ip_tables              13840  1 iptable_filter
ip6t_REJECT             7552  2 
xt_tcpudp               6656  2 
nf_conntrack_ipv6      15864  2 
xt_state                5888  4 
nf_conntrack           49748  3 nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack_ipv6,xt_state
ip6table_filter         6400  1 
ip6_tables             14736  1 ip6table_filter
x_tables               15236  6 ipt_REJECT,ip_tables,ip6t_REJECT,xt_tcpudp,xt_state,ip6_tables
cpufreq_ondemand       10124  1 
acpi_cpufreq           11532  2 
loop                   16772  0 
dm_multipath           18056  0 
ipv6                  221660  16 ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6
snd_hda_intel         330144  3 
snd_seq_dummy           6660  0 
snd_seq_oss            30364  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      9600  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                48448  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device         10124  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            42496  0 
snd_mixer_oss          16768  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                67076  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
i915                   84484  2 
snd_timer              21640  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
drm                   145508  3 i915
snd_page_alloc         11400  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_hwdep              10500  1 snd_hda_intel
firewire_ohci          21636  0 
uvcvideo               49416  0 
compat_ioctl32          5120  1 uvcvideo
videodev               30208  1 uvcvideo
iTCO_wdt               13476  0 
tifm_7xx1               9088  0 
video                  20368  0 
battery                14084  0 
sdhci                  16908  0 
mmc_core               40604  1 sdhci
snd                    48312  16 snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
ac                      8068  0 
output                  6656  1 video
i2c_i801               11920  0 
tifm_core              10396  1 tifm_7xx1
i2c_algo_bit            8964  1 i915
nsc_ircc               17680  0 
acer_wmi               12596  0 
irda                   98696  1 nsc_ircc
iTCO_vendor_support     6916  1 iTCO_wdt
tg3                   102788  0 
crc_ccitt               5760  1 irda
firewire_core          34208  1 firewire_ohci
v4l1_compat            15364  2 uvcvideo,videodev
crc_itu_t               5760  1 firewire_core
button                 10000  0 
serio_raw               8708  0 
soundcore               9288  1 snd
joydev                 12608  0 
ath5k                 105736  0 
pcspkr                  6272  0 
mac80211              185184  1 ath5k
cfg80211               24712  2 ath5k,mac80211
wmi                     9640  1 acer_wmi
i2c_core               20628  4 i915,drm,i2c_i801,i2c_algo_bit
sr_mod                 17064  0 
cdrom                  32796  1 sr_mod
sg                     31028  0 
dm_snapshot            18468  0 
dm_zero                 5632  0 
dm_mirror              26116  0 
dm_mod                 48980  9 dm_multipath,dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
pata_acpi               8192  0 
ata_piix               20100  4 
ata_generic             8964  0 
libata                126688  3 pata_acpi,ata_piix,ata_generic
sd_mod                 25624  5 
scsi_mod              120820  4 sr_mod,sg,libata,sd_mod
ext3                  108424  2 
jbd                    40852  1 ext3
mbcache                10116  1 ext3
uhci_hcd               22928  0 
ohci_hcd               22276  0 
ehci_hcd               32268  0

Quote:

Code:

/sbin/iwconfig

Code:

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

irda0     no wireless extensions.

pan0      no wireless extensions.

tskubala · #5 11th October 2008, 01:11 AM

Hey, by the looks of that you don't have an Intel Wireless, but an Atheros card. Try this

sudo yum install kmod-ndiswrapper

sudo /sbin/modprobe -r ath5k

Download the atheros windows drivers, try this link:
http://blakecmartin.googlepages.com/...-32-0.2.tar.gz

Extract them somewhere, then navigate to this folder in a terminal.

Type:
sudo ndiswrapper -i net5211.inf

then
ndiswrapper -l

This should display the device as present. If so, type

sudo /sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper

and wait a bit.

then type: iwconfig and there should be a wireless interface present. If this works, you may need to blacklist the ath5k module from loading on startup. I'll try to explain that if this had worked.

Boof · #6 13th October 2008, 05:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tskubala

Hey, by the looks of that you don't have an Intel Wireless, but an Atheros card.

Duh, I shoulda caught that. Thanks.

Quote:

Try this

sudo yum install kmod-ndiswrapper

When I try that I get this:

Code:

Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-9&arch=i386 error was
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution')>
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again

It looks like it's trying to get files online, but it can't because I can't get online without wireless. Catch-22?

tskubala · #7 13th October 2008, 01:16 PM

Okay, do you have a ethernet cable? If so you could connect the laptop directly to the router. If not, I believe it's possible to use the installation DVD as a source. In add/remove programs, in one of the menus there a "Software Sources" item, if you go into that and deselect all sources except the Installation media, you should be able to install the kmod. For the windows drivers, you'll need to use a memory stick or CD from another computer to transfer them.

On the other hand, Atheros has released far better FOSS linux drivers recently, and as such Fedora 10 will (should..) have excellent native support for your chipset, so it could be worth waiting for that release.