On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Phil Perry wrote:

> Avetisyan, Aram wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I followed the instructions for updating to SL 5.3 (from SL 5.1 + latest yum updates) on scientificlinux.org. It did not give any errors during the update, but I think something went very wrong because now I have a rather long list of problems such as:
>>
>> 1) During every boot, I get this message:
>>
>> Bringing up interface wmaster0
>> Determining IP information for wmaster0... SIOCSIFFLAGS Operation not supported
>> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported
>>
>> The machine is frozen for about 2 minutes while it thinks about these SIOCSIFFLAGS after which it resumes booting.
>>
>> 2) The option to connect to wireless networks through Network Manager is grayed out. I have an Intel 4965AGN wireless card which worked perfectly fine before I tried updating, but now it doesn't seem to see the networks anymore -- the settings include a list of all of the connections with correct names and passwords, but the system acts as if there is no network in range.
>>
>
> I think these two issues are related to the updated driver for iwl4965
> in 5.3. SL5.2 used the iwl4965 driver whereas 5.3 uses the new iwlagn
> driver. They use *different* firmware, so a user updating from 5.2 ->
> 5.3 with previously working wireless will experience the issues you
> describe if the correct firmware is not installed.
>
> In /etc/firmware you will need iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode (note the -2
> revision is required by the new iwlagn driver).
>
> RPMforge has the correct firmware packages (yum install
> iwl4965-firmware). I'm not sure what SL firmware packages are available
> nor what firmwares these packages contain.

The firmware is in iwlwifi-4965-ucode which is part of SLF 5.3 .

   /lib/firmware/LICENSE.iwlwifi-4965-ucode
   /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-4965-1.ucode
   /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode
   /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-4965.ucode

-connie sieh

>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Phil
>