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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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FRANCHISSEUR Robert wrote:
> -- On 2008-07-23 -0400 at 11:05:22 Avetisyan, Aram wrote --
> 
>> Hi Troy,
>>
>>  Thanks, that is good to know.  If somebody knows how to get the  4965
>>  card working, that would likewise be appreciated.
>>
>> <snip>
> 
>        I just succeded to make it work on a Dell D830 laptop with this card under SL5.1 :)
> 
>        the problem was that :
> 
> Aug 20 17:16:14 catlett firmware_helper[7658]: Loading of /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-4965-1.ucode for iwl4965
>  driver failed: No such file or directory                                           ==
> 
>        and indeed iwlwifi-4965-ucode-4.44.17-5.sl5.noarch contains
> 
>        /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-4965.ucode
> 
>        and *NOT*
> 
>        /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-4965-1.ucode
> 
>        A  yum --enablerepo=* provides iwlwifi-4965-1.ucode
> 
>        gave me  iwlwifi-4965-ucode.noarch                4.44.1.20-7.0.1        atrpms
> 
>        So I did :
> 
>        yum remove iwlwifi-4965-ucode
>        yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=atrpms install iwlwifi-4965-ucode-4.44.1.20-7.0.1.noarch
> 
>        and it works.
> 
>        P.S. The fact that it is blaklisted does not hurt.
> 

That is really interesting.  We actually got the basis for the rpm from atrpms, 
but we pulled it from iwlwifi-4965-ucode-4.44.17-5.0.1.noarch.rpm.  Which, if 
you do
# yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=atrpms list iwlwifi-4965-ucode
Available Packages
iwlwifi-4965-ucode.noarch                4.44.17-5.0.1          atrpms
#
So, I believe we thought we were getting the latest firmware.
Now ... if you look at the download area for the firmware, I think I see the 
confusion because there is
iwlwifi-4965-ucode-228.57.2.21.tgz 	07-07-08 00:17:06 	
iwlwifi-4965-ucode-228.57.1.21.tgz 	07-03-08 18:33:46 	
iwlwifi-4965-ucode-4.44.1.20.tgz 	11-27-07 17:46:05 	
iwlwifi-4965-ucode-4.44.1.18.tgz 	07-27-07 01:17:29 	
iwlwifi-4965-ucode-4.44.17.tgz 	07-15-07 22:09:55 	
iwlwifi-4965-ucode-4.44.15.tgz 	06-14-07 20:50:34 	
iwlwifi-4965-ucode-4.44.14.tgz 	06-05-07 09:54:59 	

So their numbering went
4.44.14
4.44.15
4.44.17
4.44.1.18
4.44.1.20

Which is just ... well ... silly.

Anyway ... let me get an updated firmware rpm out that has both the old and the 
new firmware in it.  Similar to what we've done with th ipw2200 firmware.

I'll put it into testing first.

Troy
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