networkmanager and iwlwifi for 4965AGN card

kiloecho7 · 2007-08-24 06:14:00

I'm a linux newbie here, so please be patient. Nevertheless, I am a newbie who has searched the forums and the wiki extensively for a solution to my problem (total now 12 hours), so I should be able to perform whatever fix it steps that you tell me.

I am running Arch Linux don't panic on a Thinkpad x61s with KDEmod. I have installed the iwlwifi driver and the iwl4965-ucode and added the daemons and the modules list but knetworkmanager registers absolutely nothing. I believe that the card is working and the driver is installed because when I run iwlist, it turns up this.

# iwlist wlan0 scan

wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:0A:95:F2:5F:70
Essid: "Bach"
Mode:Master
Channel1:1
Frequency:2.412 Ghz
...
Extra:tsf-0000010efca6f833

I am thinking maybe it's my rc.conf or something. It says

MODULES=(e1000 snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-hda-intel soundcore mac80211 iwl4965)

...

lo="lo 127.0.0.1"
eth0="dhcp"
wlan0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(lo !eth0 !wlan0)

...

gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1
ROUTES=(!gateway)

...

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng !network dbus hal netfs crond kdm dhcdbd networkmanager portmap fam)

Is there anything else that I should post? I've been at this way too long and it's starting to get discouraging. Maybe archlinux is not a great distro for someone in the "learning the basics stage." All help is appreciated.

kiloecho7

kiloecho7 · 2007-08-24 06:17:51

Oh, and by the way, the little wireless switch on the bottom of my laptop is in the wireless enabled position, just for those of you who are thinking I'm that much of a newbie.:)

tomk · 2007-08-24 06:40:16

My advice would be to forget about networkmanager for the moment, and make sure everything is working using the basic tools e.g. ifconfig, iwconfig, etc. When you're happy with that i.e. when you have achieved a working wireless connection, then you can put networkmanager back in.

In general, Arch is aimed at intermediate/advanced Linux users, but IMO anyone who's prepared to put a bit of time into it can get it working. The length of "a bit of time" will, of course, depend on where you're starting from.

print · 2007-08-26 06:07:08

wlassistant works great for the T61 in my experience

buddabrod · 2007-08-26 17:04:58

Networkmanager doesn't work here either (but it did one week ago in gentoo). I'm using manual wpa_supplicant config which works great.

n8schicht · 2007-08-27 07:16:24

@kiloecho7: Maybe you should give ndiswrapper a try. For me the iwl4965 did work somehow, but if I tried to connect to another network it would just die and I had to reboot my laptop. Ndiswrapper and the XP-driver seem to work better right now.

@print: Thanks for the hint about wlassistant! It works, somehow, but after a reboot it doesn't connect to my network automatically and it takes a few tries until it does. So I'm back with wicd which is more reliable at the moment for me.

Last edited by n8schicht (2007-08-27 07:18:35)

kiloecho7 · 2007-08-29 18:28:30

SUCCESS!!! Thanks all for helping out a newbie.

print · 2007-08-29 18:51:13

No problem. @n8schicht -- I am also having trouble getting wireless to come up at boot time. I have to run dhcpcd wlan0 and bounce the network init script to get it to work, this is with network profiles. @tomk: I agree with you on the rudimentary skills first, do you know a good tutorial that explains (e.g. ifconfig, iwconfig, etc.) excepting the man pages? Particularly as they apply to wireless? Thanks,
print

Last edited by print (2007-08-29 18:51:55)

tomk · 2007-08-29 20:28:12

print wrote:

@tomk: I agree with you on the rudimentary skills first, do you know a good tutorial that explains (e.g. ifconfig, iwconfig, etc.) excepting the man pages? Particularly as they apply to wireless?

Not offhand. I've picked it up over the years using the man pages as the starting point, and googling for whatever I needed after that.

The bible for Linux Wifi is Jean Tourrilhes' Linux Wireless LAN Howto (also the first result if you google for 'Linux wireless howto' ), but there are plenty of other info sources - it's really up to you to decide how much reading you want to do.

supersako · 2007-11-16 01:02:48

Hey kiloecho7,
I just ordered me a T61p and it comes with the same intel wifi card you were having trouble with. Looks like you solved your wifi problem, mind sharing the fix to your issue? Thanks!

brain0 · 2007-11-16 08:03:54

n8schicht wrote:

@kiloecho7: Maybe you should give ndiswrapper a try. For me the iwl4965 did work somehow, but if I tried to connect to another network it would just die and I had to reboot my laptop. Ndiswrapper and the XP-driver seem to work better right now.

Same problem for the 3945 driver. Can you comment here please, I don't think Intel believes it is an actual problem:
http://bughost.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1468

kiloecho7 · 2008-02-05 15:40:52

Hey, I had forgotten about this post that I never really finished up. The problem is solved now. Using the wicd and standard packages from the repository, everything works great. Thank you arch maintainers!:cool:

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networkmanager and iwlwifi for 4965AGN card

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