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Re: How do you make wireless work on SL5.1 with 4965AGN card?
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Urs Beyerle <[log in to unmask]>
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Urs Beyerle <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:22:32 +0200
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Aram Avetisyan wrote:
> Hello. I have just installed Scientific Linux 5.1 on my new laptop and 
> I'm trying to make the wireless work. I have installed the microcode 
> the SL5.1 documentation says I need 
> (iwlwifi-4965-ucode-4.44.17-5.sl5.noarch.rpm), but the computer does 
> not see the Intel 4965AGN card. I've also tried installing the driver 
> from Intel (iwlwifi-1.0.0-1), but when I try to compile it, it tells 
> me  "Kernel Makefile not found at 
> '/lib/modules/2.6.18-53.1.14.el5/source'".  ndiswrapper likewise fails 
> to do anything (it complains about 32-bit drivers on a 64-bit system 
> and can't convert the 64-bit ones). Does anyone know how to get this 
> wireless card to work?

Do you have the line

alias wlan0 iwl4965

in your /etc/modprobe.conf?

Is the driver iwl4965 loaded? See output of /sbin/lsmod.

What do you see in /var/log/messages and dmesg? Anything concerning iwl4965?

    Urs

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