Intel 4965 wireless not working

Slurt · **Joined:** Mon Jan 05, 2009 3:15 am **Posts:** 12

Hi,

Like to say I'm very impressed w/ZW. I'm using: zenwalk-5.4BETA1.iso. I have a wireless problem: My adapter is on my notebook: Intel 4965AGN. Works fine in XP and Xubuntu 8.10 But in ZW I can not get any wireless action. The wireless LED will not light up. The wireless will not turn on. I suspect that ZW is not "seeing" the wireless hardware. Is there a fix?

Thanks,
L

tsuren · **Posted:** Mon Jan 05, 2009 9:23 pm

have you started wicd?

and what is the output of iwconfig?

Slurt · **Joined:** Mon Jan 05, 2009 3:15 am **Posts:** 12

Hi, here's output. Let me know if any other info needed.

gold[~]$ ps -e | grep wicd
563 ? 00:00:00 wicd-monitor
2798 ? 00:00:00 wicd
gold[~]$

gold[~]$ /sbin/iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

tsuren · **Posted:** Tue Jan 06, 2009 12:18 am

your wireless is there, detected and working. i suppose.

now go to Network Manager under System

which encryption method are you using? WEP or WPA?

Slurt · **Joined:** Mon Jan 05, 2009 3:15 am **Posts:** 12

The network manager says" No wireless networks found". Of course I opened that first when i saw wireless was not working.

I tried it on a wireless with WEP and it couldn't find that or any wrireless networks - even though there are many in the area.

I will google all the info now - should of done that first...What is this?!

http://packages.zenwalk.org/?p=iwlwifi- ... n=snapshot

Will this help? What will it do? Please explain this package to me - Thanks.

tsuren · **Posted:** Tue Jan 06, 2009 2:15 am

the next thing is perhaps you need a firmware installed in your box. this is also a possibility, i helped setting up a wifi for my friend the other day, and he needed to install a firmware for his network card.

tsuren · **Posted:** Tue Jan 06, 2009 2:27 am

Slurt wrote:

http://packages.zenwalk.org/?p=iwlwifi- ... n=snapshot

Will this help? What will it do? Please explain this package to me - Thanks.

that's already in your box, installed.

Slurt · **Joined:** Mon Jan 05, 2009 3:15 am **Posts:** 12

I don't know what to do next...any ideas? Else i have to throw in the towel which would be asahme because Zenwalk is excellent in other respects.

tsuren · **Posted:** Tue Jan 06, 2009 2:32 am

could you put the output of
lsmod
?

Slurt · **Joined:** Mon Jan 05, 2009 3:15 am **Posts:** 12

gold[~]$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
iptable_mangle 1408 0
iptable_nat 2568 0
nf_nat 8728 1 iptable_nat
nf_conntrack_ipv4 6284 3 iptable_nat,nf_nat
nf_conntrack 27216 3 iptable_nat,nf_nat,nf_conntrack_ipv4
iptable_filter 1280 0
ip_tables 6544 3 iptable_mangle,iptable_nat,iptable_filter
x_tables 6148 2 iptable_nat,ip_tables
fuse 30876 2
pata_pcmcia 6912 1
arc4 1280 2
fan 2048 0
ecb 1536 2
ehci_hcd 22028 0
pcmcia 19828 1 pata_pcmcia
uhci_hcd 13836 0
ricoh_mmc 2560 0
thermal 9884 0
wmi 3368 0
processor 22316 3 thermal
iwlagn 56324 0
snd_hda_intel 260880 1
iwlcore 50500 1 iwlagn
rfkill 3480 2 iwlcore
led_class 1668 1 iwlcore
mac80211 79248 2 iwlagn,iwlcore
snd_pcm 34436 1 snd_hda_intel
cfg80211 13832 3 iwlagn,iwlcore,mac80211
snd_timer 11016 1 snd_pcm
snd 26168 5 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 3016 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 3976 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
e1000e 67624 0
intel_agp 16068 0
ohci1394 19888 0
sdhci_pci 4096 0
sdhci 8964 1 sdhci_pci
agpgart 16052 1 intel_agp
ieee1394 43540 1 ohci1394
video 11024 0
output 1280 1 video
mmc_core 22684 1 sdhci
joydev 5952 0
button 3600 0
yenta_socket 14476 4
rsrc_nonstatic 6272 1 yenta_socket
parport_pc 22716 0
parport 19412 1 parport_pc
battery 6532 0
evdev 5252 6
pcmcia_core 17300 4 pata_pcmcia,pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
ac 2308 0
sg 16948 0
gold[~]$

tsuren · **Posted:** Tue Jan 06, 2009 2:37 am

ok, that looks fine to me.

and did you try to change something in the wicd preference?

tsuren · **Posted:** Tue Jan 06, 2009 2:42 am

can this be of any help?

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=17423

Slurt · **Joined:** Mon Jan 05, 2009 3:15 am **Posts:** 12

It just says no wireless networks found.

I have not changed anything, but I can go in there and and start playing?

tsuren · **Posted:** Tue Jan 06, 2009 2:55 am

yes... i am also searching. because this should really work out of the box, and i don't see why in your case it is not working.

Slurt · **Joined:** Mon Jan 05, 2009 3:15 am **Posts:** 12

dmesg shows problems - this phrase is repeated many times in dmesg:

...
firmware: requesting iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode
iwlagn: iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
iwlagn: Could not read microcode: -2
iwlagn 0000:10:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
iwlagn 0000:10:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
iwlagn 0000:10:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was 0x100002, writing 0x100006)
firmware: requesting iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode
iwlagn: iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
iwlagn: Could not read microcode: -2
iwlagn 0000:10:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
iwlagn 0000:10:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
iwlagn 0000:10:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was 0x100002, writing 0x100006)
firmware: requesting iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode
iwlagn: iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
iwlagn: Could not read microcode: -2
iwlagn 0000:10:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
iwlagn 0000:10:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
iwlagn 0000:10:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was 0x100002, writing 0x100006)
firmware: requesting iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode
...

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