Return-path: Received: from orca.ele.uri.edu ([131.128.51.63]:44093 "EHLO orca.ele.uri.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753225AbYHNTOI (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:14:08 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:13:47 -0400 From: Will Simoneau To: Tomas Winkler Cc: linux-wireless , LKML , ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Zhu Yi Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Wifi Link 5300 and 5100 Series Message-ID: <20080814191347.GA9662@ele.uri.edu> (sfid-20080814_211414_966928_25B3B6C4) References: <1ba2fa240808131411o638311f1m2e2daa6ef62057b1@mail.gmail.com> <20080814062604.GA16234@ele.uri.edu> <1ba2fa240808140515r92a3ec7i90ea6c03e2adb7ee@mail.gmail.com> <1ba2fa240808140603p3b4a47e4k4a0b98e5bf145b57@mail.gmail.com> <20080814175532.GB30317@ele.uri.edu> <1ba2fa240808141109l11d729ecjf6253e9acf5d3c7f@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe" In-Reply-To: <1ba2fa240808141109l11d729ecjf6253e9acf5d3c7f@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 21:09 Thu 14 Aug , Tomas Winkler wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Will Simoneau wro= te: > > On 16:03 Thu 14 Aug , Tomas Winkler wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Tomas Winkler wrot= e: > >> > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Will Simoneau wrote: > >> >> On 00:11 Thu 14 Aug , Tomas Winkler wrote: > >> >>> Intel would like to announce Linux support for Wifi Link 5000 and > >> >>> 5100 Series Adapters under iwlwifi driver (iwlagn.ko) > >> >>> > >> >> ... > >> >>> The best known working driver can be located in iwl500 branch of > >> >>> iwlwifi-2.6.git > >> >>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/iwlwifi-2.6.= git iwl5000 > >> >> > >> >> This is great news to me - my new Sager laptop has a 5300 card. How= ever, > >> >> it doesn't seem to work: > >> >> > >> > >> Can you send me the exact laptop type? > >> Thanks > > > > It's a Sager NP5796 (Clevo M570TU). > > >=20 > >git-checkout -b iwl5000 origin/iwl5000 > Tomas OK, that gave me very different kernel/driver versions. uname -r: 2.6.26-rc6-iwl-2.3.5-wl dmesg: iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, 2.3.5ks iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2008 Intel Corporation ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:07:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:07:00.0 to 64 iwlagn: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 5300AGN REV=3D0x24 iwlagn: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 24 802.11a channels phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-agn-rs' input: 5300AGN as /class/input/input7 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:07:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 firmware: requesting iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode iwlagn: START_ALIVE timeout after 4000ms. --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkikg+sACgkQLYBaX8VDLLWfvACfax5OUR2V8dmwOwKXzvvk53ir 2c4An1CBPzYAl+Yw584HYX+q+v8/5qLN =/hdj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe--