Return-path: Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.238]:58766 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757089AbYHNMP5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:15:57 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id k40so381780rvb.1 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:15:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1ba2fa240808140515r92a3ec7i90ea6c03e2adb7ee@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20080814_141621_939157_80E8FB04) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:15:56 +0300 From: "Tomas Winkler" To: "Will Simoneau" Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Wifi Link 5300 and 5100 Series Cc: linux-wireless , LKML , ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, "Zhu Yi" In-Reply-To: <20080814062604.GA16234@ele.uri.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <1ba2fa240808131411o638311f1m2e2daa6ef62057b1@mail.gmail.com> <20080814062604.GA16234@ele.uri.edu> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. However, > it doesn't seem to work: > > iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, 1.3.27ks > iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2008 Intel Corporation > iwlagn 0000:07:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 > iwlagn 0000:07:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 > iwlagn: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 5300AGN REV=0x24 > iwlagn: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 24 802.11a channels > phy7: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-agn-rs' > iwlagn 0000:07:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 > firmware: requesting iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode > iwlagn 0000:07:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 > iwlagn: START_ALIVE timeout after 4000ms. > Yes, this was already reported, but I was not able to reproduce it so far on my machines. I'm still trying to locate a machine that behaves same. > I have the microcode in /lib/firmware, and the kernel/driver source is > the latest from iwlwifi-2.6.git. What else should I provide for > debugging? > is this iwl5000 branch ? Thanks Tomas