Description of problem: Kernel 2.6.26.3 did not recognize Intel Wireless Link 5100 card According this announce [1] the support should be shipped with actual Fedora 9 kernels. [1] http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2008-08/msg05976.html Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel 2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686 I tested also this kernel: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=63641 How reproducible: It do not work at all -- hardware is not recognized. Steps to Reproduce: iwconfig should identify the wifi card lspci should identify the device - Intel has provided "..pci.ids were already sent to http://pciids.sourceforge.net" Actual results: lspci | grep Network 02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 4237 Expected results: 4237 Wifi Link 5100 Wireless Adapter iwconfig shows wlan0 or something like that Additional info: More information about the problem is here: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=200440 Speculation: missing iwlagn.ko? locate iwlagn.ko should return that the kernel module is present modprobe iwlagn iwconfig than should return some wifi device?
the iwlagn driver didn't get merged in 2.6.26 It won't show up in F-9 until after 2.6.27 is released, and then backported as an update. The lspci text is nothing to do with the kernel, file a separate bug against pciutils for that one.
Today I tested FC10 beta,KDE Live CD and the card was not detected automatically. I had to do modprobe iwlagn. Then the iwconfig shows the wifi card as wlan0. ifup wlan0 did not work. Tested kernel: kernel-2.6.27-0.352.rc7.git1.fc10.i686 (from KDE Live CD) Here is the lspci bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465440 I would like to resolve this as I want working wifi in FC10. I will show up in #fedora-devel, or where I can talk about it?
Did you install the firmware?
Yep, I installed firmware called iwl5000-firmware with yum. I probably managed to wake up the wifi. But scanning was not sucessful. I did iwlist wlan0 scan and no wifi were found, even there are 3 or 4 around.
Today I get working wifi. I installed kernel from rawhide into FC9 without one depenedency -- mkinitrd.i386. I installed kernel-2.6.27-0.392.rc8.git7.fc10.i686 kernel-firmware-2.6.27-0.392.rc8.git7.fc10.noarch Before that I removed firmware called iwl4965-firmware. Now I got working Intel Wifi Link 5100. Resolved for me!
Excellent! :-)