Intel wifi link 1000 series, how to get it working?

natostanco · 2010-09-28 16:40:54

Hi, I have installed arch linux on my netbook acer 1825PTZ, its wireless card is Intel wifi link 1000series, I have tried to follow the wireless setup guide on archwiki but I have not come to a conclusion...I've searched among the list of supported drivers but I am not sure if it is supported or not. So can you plz make a more accurate research? i would like to keep ndiswrapper as ultimate choice...

codycarey · 2010-09-28 17:31:30

You need to post relevant output that will assist in determining your problem, simply telling people to elaborate on the wiki isn't going to get you any help or win you any favor.

shemz · 2010-09-28 17:44:41

Your wireless card is officially supported by the stock kernel (more). Install linux-firmware package. If that doesn't solve, post output of dmesg | grep iwlagn.

natostanco · 2010-09-28 20:20:15

how to install it?
pacman -S linux-firmware doesn't find it
should i use pacman -U ? where is the path?

RaisedFist · 2010-09-28 20:24:07

Ha! Are you sure pacman doesn't find the package? It's in the core repo... Just try pacman -Ss linux-firmware and see if it's found.

natostanco · 2010-09-28 21:40:24

doing pacman -Ss firmaware have found the iwl-1000-udev firmware
so i try to install it and it says cannot download the package? i do pacman -S iwl-1000-udev
should i do pacman -U path? what is the path?

moose jaw · 2010-09-29 03:22:10

natostanco wrote:

doing pacman -Ss firmaware have found the iwl-1000-udev firmware
so i try to install it and it says cannot download the package? i do pacman -S iwl-1000-udev
should i do pacman -U path? what is the path?

There is no package by that name in the official Arch repos. What you are looking for is the "linux-firmware" package. You need to run pacman -S linux-firmware. The iwlwifi-1000-3.ucode file is contained in that package and will be installed in the right place and shouldn't require any further setup or configuration. This will allow your kernel to initialize the wifi card and get it going. Actually connecting to a network will require some software steps, as described in the wiki and elsewhere (ifconfig/iwconfig/wpa_supplicant on the command line, or a simpler all-in-one program like wicd or network-manager).

natostanco · 2010-09-29 06:21:00

as i said pacman doesn't find linux-firmware...

Buffalo Soldier · 2010-09-29 06:26:23

Have you update your package list?

pacman -Syu

or

sudo pacman -Syu

Nichollan · 2010-09-29 06:34:03

According to the lspci command I am using "Intel Corporation WiFi Link 1000 Series," and my wireless connection generally works. I also have linux-firmware installed. If pacman can't find the package, perhaps there's a problem with your mirror.

natostanco · 2010-09-29 07:04:18

ehm, how I am supposed to download a package if i am installing the device for internet connection? I thought that the package was already between installation files...

Buffalo Soldier · 2010-09-29 07:15:54

during installation you need to do this -> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beg … nvironment

natostanco · 2010-09-29 08:27:53

the package linux-firmware is not between primary files...so I use the command

dmesg | grep firmware

to enable the firmware...then used netcfg with a simple wpa-wireless profile to start the connection^^

Nichollan · 2010-09-29 08:41:39

Ehh... can dmesg without any options actually enable anything? Anyway, I post this in case you still get some issues.

natostanco wrote:

ehm, how I am supposed to download a package if i am installing the device for internet connection? I thought that the package was already between installation files...

Hopefully you will be able to use ethernet, or you could download the linux-firmware package from a mirror on a different system.

To download the package from a mirror without pacman, go to one of the HTTP addresses in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist with "$repo" swapped with "core" and $arch swapped with either i686 or x86_64. You should be able to see a link to a linux-firmware file. When you've transferred this file over to your Arch system, you install it by

# pacman -U /path/to/package

I avoided the Netinstall image as I suspected that I would have some major issues getting Internet connectivity. If you chose the core image, you should have the package already installed.

Last edited by Nichollan (2010-09-29 09:03:07)

Nichollan · 2010-09-29 08:55:49

I just ran the Netinstall image in a virtual machine, and the linux-firmware package seems to be missing (according to pacman -Q linux-firmware). I think it ought to be included, but I am not sure who I should ask.

natostanco · 2010-09-29 09:08:04

My wifi works fine now, but i can't find what should I do to enable "ifconfig wlan0 up" at boot...

Nichollan · 2010-09-29 09:30:37

You could use netcfg. Note the section in the article called "Connecting automatically."

natostanco · 2010-09-29 09:35:53

yes I have put net-profiles between daemons and wrote my network profile in NETWORKS=(wireless-wpa), but I need to know how to enable wireless card at boot :s
writing under interfaces wlan0="dhcp" actually enables it but doesn't connect to the network profile, so i think it goes in conflict with netcfg? O.o

RaisedFist · 2010-10-01 06:45:50

it should start by default if you put it that way, you don't need the wlan0=dhcp part

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