iwl4965 LED?

pestilence · 2008-05-26 10:08:41

Anyone know if there is a status update regarding this issue?
Sometimes it gets so frustrating getting hardware to work this LED thing on this card drives me nuts...since I always have to check my dmesg to see what's going on with WIFI connections

dante4d · 2008-05-26 12:07:23

Try reading or searching based on this: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=37437

Back2Cali · 2008-05-26 19:04:03

Check the compat-wireless package from AUR. I had to modify the version from AUR to the one from today (May 26th) and the LED works flawless (it even flickers when it's sending or receiving data).
The version from AUR (the one for the tp kernel) which is from May 24th caused my system to freeze so that's why I modified the PKGBUILD to the 26th of May.

blacklotus · 2008-05-26 20:12:16

Thx works great

pestilence · 2008-05-27 08:10:01

Nope does not work, I tryed the latest (27/5) and it did lockup my system, LED did work but I couldn't associate or do anything with my wifi, so back to the original....

iggy · 2008-05-27 23:15:19

yeah! finally the wireless led is working! i'm so happy!

dell xps m1330
kernel 2.6.25.4-1
compat-wireless 2008-05-27

why is it working with this the latest version from wirelesslinux but not with the new 2.6.25 kernel?

bye iggy

poor_kenny · 2008-05-28 11:54:35

I just tried compat-wireless.. but i had kernel panic as soon as it associated with the AP. i have another laptop with fedora 8 on it and it works out of box... can we expect something like this in arch in future sometime?

creole · 2008-05-28 12:36:19

poor_kenny wrote:

I just tried compat-wireless.. but i had kernel panic as soon as it associated with the AP. i have another laptop with fedora 8 on it and it works out of box... can we expect something like this in arch in future sometime?

Yes same here on acer 5920g

blacklotus · 2008-05-28 15:17:15

The LED works flawless now on my Lenovo 3000 N200 kernel 2.6.25 + compat-wireless 2008_05_26-1

Only problem is that with kernel 2.6.25 the networkmanager trys to scan even if the kill switch is set. Hope there will be an update someday.

May 28 17:14:43 lenovo iwl4965: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch
May 28 17:14:43 lenovo ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:04:00.0 disabled
May 28 17:14:43 lenovo NetworkManager: <WARN> nm_device_802_11_wireless_scan(): (wlan0): could not trigger wireless scan: Network is down

Reasons · 2008-06-05 04:04:53

While its not a big deal it's nice to see it fixed.

.:B:. · 2008-06-05 12:30:58

The iwlwifi code in 2.6.26 seems to have been reorganised, there is a 'core' module now, and there's an option to have a LED driver too. Maybe you guys want to check one of the RC's? Running fine here, but I have no wireless status LED.

ST.x · 2008-07-03 07:14:15

iggy wrote:

yeah! finally the wireless led is working! i'm so happy!
dell xps m1330
kernel 2.6.25.4-1
compat-wireless 2008-05-27
why is it working with this the latest version from wirelesslinux but not with the new 2.6.25 kernel?
bye iggy

Did you have to modify anything in the PKGBUILD specifically for iwl4965, cos I see:

echo -ne "CONFIG_IWL3945_LEDS=y\nCONFIG_IWLWIFI_LEDS=y\nCONFIG_MAC80211_LEDS=y\n" >> config.mk

iggy · 2008-07-03 13:13:41

ST.x wrote:

iggy wrote:
yeah! finally the wireless led is working! i'm so happy!
dell xps m1330
kernel 2.6.25.4-1
compat-wireless 2008-05-27
why is it working with this the latest version from wirelesslinux but not with the new 2.6.25 kernel?
bye iggy
Did you have to modify anything in the PKGBUILD specifically for iwl4965, cos I see:
echo -ne "CONFIG_IWL3945_LEDS=y\nCONFIG_IWLWIFI_LEDS=y\nCONFIG_MAC80211_LEDS=y\n" >> config.mk

no!
imo this option includes iwl4965 and iwl3945: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_LEDS=y

Last edited by iggy (2008-07-03 13:14:58)

ST.x · 2008-07-03 13:26:22

ok nice, also im wondering if I need to get rid of wpa_supplicant(using it ok, with netcfg2) if I install compat-wireless ?

big_gie · 2008-07-03 13:29:36

compat-wireless is only a backport of drivers from kernel 2.6.26 to early ones, enabling new features of the drivers.
wpa_supplicant is the program that manages the wireless connection (it can do pretty much everything else also), so you still need it

ST.x · 2008-07-03 14:08:50

And is it okay to have iwlwifi-4965-ucode installed as well?

thanks

big_gie · 2008-07-03 15:08:38

you need that the "ucode", its the firmware. It is the piece of code that run directly on the wireless chip. Without it, the wireless chip does know what to do. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmware

.:B:. · 2008-07-03 15:42:43

I can confirm the wireless LED works with 2.6.26 release candidates, for the adventurous people .

rson451 · 2008-07-03 16:02:14

that's nice to know. i've got the 3945 so chances are it will work with .26 too

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