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GhostFreeman

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Registered: 2008-08-06

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] Having issues getting wifi (iwl4965) to work

Hi, I just finished installing Arch, love it so far btw, been having difficulties trying to get my iwl4965 chipset to work. I'm encountering this error when I try to mount wlan0:

[root@myhost ~]# ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

And here's some other stuff

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:13:E8:A8:A3:A3  
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

[root@myhost ~]# lsmod | grep iwl
iwl4965               101748  0 
mac80211              130572  1 iwl4965

[root@myhost ~]# grep wlan /etc/rc.conf 
MODULES=(mii r8169 iwl4965 rndis_wlan cdc_ether rndis_host usbnet

edit: also did a dmesg -- found this that might be relevant

PM: Writing back config space on device 0000:02:00.0 at offset 1 (was 40100102, writing 40100106)
iwl4965: iwlwifi-4965-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
iwl4965: Could not read microcode: -2
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:00.0 disabled
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PM: Writing back config space on device 0000:02:00.0 at offset 1 (was 100102, writing 40100106)
iwl4965: iwlwifi-4965-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
iwl4965: Could not read microcode: -2
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:00.0 disabled

Searched these forums for assistance -- found a couple of topics but even after trying compat-wireless (or at least I think I did) no dice. Any guidance on where to go from here would be great. Thanks again.

Last edited by GhostFreeman (2008-08-06 04:32:41)

GhostFreeman

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Registered: 2008-08-06

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Having issues getting wifi (iwl4965) to work

Solved. I forgot to get the iwl drivers from extras. Carry on...