Return-path: Received: from mail-gy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.160.174]:32873 "EHLO mail-gy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753636Ab1JQCQt (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:16:49 -0400 Message-ID: <4E9B9018.1000002@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20111017_041722_525439_94C72619) Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:16:56 -0500 From: Larry Finger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: werner CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, dave.taht@gmail.com, rientjes@google.com, arend@broadcom.com, toralf.foerster@gmx.de, wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com, ilw@linux.intel.com, larry.finger@gmail.com Subject: Re: 3.1-rc9 wifi problem References: <4E9A4496.1000906@lwfinger.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 10/16/2011 08:33 PM, werner wrote: > I have to wait until the friend with the laptop comes back, perhaps this week. > Then I can look what wireless card is in it. > > However, now I remember me: that laptop worked only good since 2.6.39 with the > new kernel-embedded modules. Before, it didn't work normally, i.e. on booting > the wireless almost never didn't switch on; only ocasionally . > > > And, beside of kernel 2.6.39, and the normal wifi software, I still had him to > install a file iwlwifi-1000-3.ucode or .5 ucode (i'm not sure, the number can > also be 5000), and I had the problem to search long time for that file because > one find only .2 or .4 in internet but what don't work at that wifi card. You > could improve the kernel-module so that everything is included so that one don't > need to search such files. That will not happen. In fact, the trend is from having firmware be a part of the driver to having it be external. I don't know what distro you use, but mine (openSUSE) maintains a package called kernel-firmware that contains all the redistributable firmware that is available from tne linux-firmware git tree. If that package is installed, then you do not have to search for firmware in most cases. If your distro does not have such a package, then complain or find another distro. > Then, with this kernel and that file however, it worked without any problem. > > I hope from these informations you can find out what wifi card or what driver is > in the laptop. We can tell that you have an Intel card, but not much more. Larry