Intel Wireless 4965AGN

Back2Cali · 2007-07-02 23:01:22

Hi!

Does anyone know how to get the Intel 4965AGN Wireless Card working under Arch? I did several things and also compiled the newest version of ndiswrapper, but nothing seems to work. Ndiswrapper 1.47 crashes my system during boot with the current drivers for this device and everything else doesn't work at all?

I've read something about the new mac80211 subsystem ant that there will be support for this card within the subsystem. Can anyone give me some information about this? And what about the driver provided by Intel? How can I get the iwlwifi driver to work with this card under Arch?
I just received my new Lenovo Thinkpad which has exactly this wireless card and now even ndiswrapper doesn't work (Arch64).

Can anyone help please?

Thanks!

baze · 2007-07-03 04:57:49

you can use the 2.6.22-rc5 kernel from tpowa [1] which has the mac80211 subsystem and use these PKGBUILDs to get the iwlwifi driver and the ucode.

iwlwifi-4965-ucode

pkgname=iwlwifi-4965-ucode
pkgver=4.44.15
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="The iwlwifi project provides a driver which utilizes the new mac80211 subsystem for the Intel® Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN and Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection adapters."
arch=(i686)
url="http://www.intellinuxwireless.org"
license=('GPL')
depends=()
source=(http://intellinuxwireless.org/iwlwifi/downloads/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tgz)

build() {
  cd ${startdir}/src/${pkgname}-${pkgver}
  install -D -m 644 iwlwifi-4965.ucode $startdir/pkg/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-4965.ucode
}

iwlwifi-4965

_kernver=2.6.22-rc5-ARCH
pkgname=iwlwifi-4965
pkgver=0.0.34
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="The iwlwifi project provides a driver which utilizes the new mac80211 subsystem for the Intel® Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN and Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection adapters."
arch=(i686)
url="http://www.intellinuxwireless.org"
license=('GPL')
depends=('kernel26>=2.6.22' 'iwlwifi-4965-ucode')
source=(http://intellinuxwireless.org/iwlwifi/downloads/iwlwifi-${pkgver}.tgz)

build() {
  cd ${startdir}/src/iwlwifi-${pkgver}
  
  make  KVER=${_kernver} KSRC=/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}
  #Install kernel module
  install -D -m 644 compatible/iwl4965.ko  $startdir/pkg/lib/modules/${_kernver}/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwl4965.ko
}

[1] http://www.archlinux.org/~tpowa/rc-kernel/

Last edited by baze (2007-07-03 07:35:16)

Back2Cali · 2007-07-03 05:49:58

Ist tpowa's kernel for Arch64 or is it a 32bit package?

baze · 2007-07-03 07:37:58

for 32bit.
bt, i fixed an error in the iwlwifi-4965 PKGBUILD. i had the package named iwlwifi for me but i only install the 3945 module and only had the 3945-ucode as a dep, that's why i called it iwlwifi-4965 for you, but this resulted in a wrong url and a wrong dir name, sorry for that

tomk · 2007-07-03 08:04:03

Back2Cali wrote:

Ist tpowa's kernel for Arch64 or is it a 32bit package?

brain0 is providing the 64 builds:
http://www.archlinux.org/~thomas/rc-kernel-x86_64

oliwer · 2007-07-03 16:18:21

I hope that mac80211 and iwlwifi will get official support in Don't Panic

Stalwart · 2007-07-03 18:13:51

New wifi stack becoming recommended choice is one of killer features of .22 kernel. It should be released soon, -rc7 was marked "should be last" by Linus

Back2Cali · 2007-07-03 23:52:42

OK, after installing the 2.6.22-rc5 kernel and all the packages for the network device, I finally was able to make it work. The light indicating that the wlan device is up and running isn't working (it did the on time I was able running ndiswrapper without my system crashing) but that's not a problem. What kind of bothers me is the fact, that knetworkmanager can't handle the device at all so I had to switch back to wireless network profiles. Does anyone have an idea why (k)networkmanager doesn't work at all. It seems to be fine with arch32 but not within 64bit. But other than this everything works pretty good.

Thanks for the help!

baze · 2007-07-04 05:05:36

the led on my thinkpad doesn't work either. i reported that bug about a week ago or so, so it's known to the devs. however the wlan0 device works fine with gnome-network-manager for me. the only trouble i have which makes me use the old ipw3945 most of the time, is that sometimes i get disconnected without any reason and the wlan0 device is gone. when i try to unload the iwl3945 module, the command can't be finished and the whole system becomes a big mess so i have to cure it the windows way (reboot).

edit: ah, networkmanager and 64bit... ok, never used 64bit yet.

Last edited by baze (2007-07-04 05:05:48)

brain0 · 2007-07-04 07:04:54

There should be packages for iwlwifi and iwlwifi-4965-ucode in the rc-kernel-64 repo, in case you haven't noticed. I think I will add iwlwifi to the extra or unstable repository when 2.6.22 is there, although it is not really usable for me.

With the 3945 card, I cannot switch between APs (if I do, the wireless interface goes dead), the wireless LED is dead and the driver generally makes trouble. Sad to hear that the 4965 driver makes similar trouble. I hope the driver will improve soon, intel was planning to merge it in 2.6.23 (I don't think that will happen at this stage).

n8schicht · 2007-08-03 13:29:05

It's August now, I bought a laptop (LG R500-UPRAG) and ndiswrapper plus windows drivers works better and more reliable then the iwl4965-driver. With ndiswrapper I can roam and connect back and forth to different networks around me without any problem. But with the iwl4965 the network will lock up and you have to restart the laptop to be able to work again. And also, with ndiswrapper the WLAN-LED is working! Nice side-effect
Oh, talking about roaming and connecting, you should check out WICD in AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … s=0&SeB=nd. So nice and lightweight, and IMHO more handy then Networkmanager. Check it out! And vote!

raymano · 2007-08-03 14:55:34

Hey, thanks for the wicd pointer. It looks very good and so far it's working very well. I can finally get rid of networkmanager!

Last edited by raymano (2007-08-03 14:56:01)

print · 2007-08-26 06:08:14

wlassistant is better than wicd in my opinion. wonder why the led doesn't work?

skale · 2007-08-26 14:54:27

both iwlwifi and ndiswrapper work for me.

iphitus · 2007-08-27 09:52:49

Always netcfg2 too
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=36384

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