Hi Aram,

It could be your access point. My Lenovo X61 laptop with 4965 wireless 
card will not talk to my home Adaptec access point, but works fine if 
I bring it into work and use our Cisco kit. So I have to use a USB 
plug in card at home.

Regards,
Rhys

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On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Avetisyan, Aram wrote:

> Hi Akemi,
>
> Unfortunately, it does not work out of the box in SL5.1. It initially worked about half the time with "alias wlan0 iwl4965" added to modprobe.conf, but after the latest updates, it doesn't work at all. I do have Network Manager enabled, but all it sees is the wired connection.
>
> Thank you for the link to the forum; it looks like a promising place to search.
>
> -- Aram
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask] on behalf of Akemi Yagi
> Sent: Wed 7/23/2008 11:14 AM
> To: Avetisyan, Aram
> Cc: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Why is iwl4965 blacklisted?
>
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Avetisyan, Aram
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> For the past couple of weeks, I have been trying to get my Intel 4965AGN card working on SL5.1 (kernel 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5). Today I noticed that the driver responsible for it, iwl4965, is blacklisted in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist with the following comment:
>>
>> # don't load iwl4965 by default, bug 245379
>>
>> Does anyone know what this "bug 245379" is and how to get the card to work? I tried commenting out the blacklist statement, but it does not help (it tells me "iwl4965 device wlan0 does not seem to be present" either way).
>
> According to this CentOS wiki, 4965AGN seems to work "out of box":
>
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/IBM/Thinkpad-T61?highlight=(4965)#head-10682a2db7c69e13ac28b5fc7ec2fdc8f27181cf
>
> Also check out this page:
>
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/NetworkManager
>
> You will find more info if you search the CentOS forums for "4965"
>
> Akemi
>

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