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SubjectRe: [ANNOUNCE] Wifi Link 5300 and 5100 Series
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Will Simoneau <simoneau@ele.uri.edu> wrote:
> On 00:11 Thu 14 Aug , Tomas Winkler wrote:
>> Intel would like to announce Linux support for Wifi Link 5000 and
>> 5100 Series Adapters under iwlwifi driver (iwlagn.ko)
>>
> ...
>> The best known working driver can be located in iwl500 branch of
>> iwlwifi-2.6.git
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/iwlwifi-2.6.git iwl5000
>
> This is great news to me - my new Sager laptop has a 5300 card. However,
> it doesn't seem to work:
>
> iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, 1.3.27ks
> iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2008 Intel Corporation
> iwlagn 0000:07:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
> iwlagn 0000:07:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
> iwlagn: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 5300AGN REV=0x24
> iwlagn: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 24 802.11a channels
> phy7: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-agn-rs'
> iwlagn 0000:07:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
> firmware: requesting iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode
> iwlagn 0000:07:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
> iwlagn: START_ALIVE timeout after 4000ms.
>

Yes, this was already reported, but I was not able to reproduce it so
far on my machines. I'm still trying to locate
a machine that behaves same.

> I have the microcode in /lib/firmware, and the kernel/driver source is
> the latest from iwlwifi-2.6.git. What else should I provide for
> debugging?
>

is this iwl5000 branch ?

Thanks
Tomas


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