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PostPosted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 10:00 am    Post subject: [solved]How to get my Wifi work before installation Reply with quote

According to the Gentoo installation handbook, the internet is needed if I use minimal CD.
The problem is, I only have a wireless network but my wifi card doesn't work and its LED stays off.

My wifi card is "Intel Wifi Link 5100 AGN", and the minimal CD is "install-amd64-minimal-20120216.iso"

from "lspci", my wifi appears here, but when I used "dmesg | grep -iwl", i got

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iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: request for firmware file 'iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode' failed.
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: request for firmware file 'iwlwifi-5000-4.ucode' failed.
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: request for firmware file 'iwlwifi-5000-3.ucode' failed.
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: request for firmware file 'iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode' failed.
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: request for firmware file 'iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode' failed.
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: no suitable firmware found!


I downloaded the newest driver from "http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/?n=downloads"
But I don't know how to use it and make my wifi work before starting the installation

By the way, do I still need internet if I download the stage3 and portage?

Thank you

Well, to make the system recognize my wifi, I copied iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode got from the site to /lib/firmware/, then
"modprobe -r iwlwifi" "modprobe iwifi". problem is solved. thanks to all


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 11:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

well, download iwlwifi-5000-ucode-8.83.5.1-1.tar.gz unpack it somewhere and copy the file iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode to /lib/firmware and then reload the driver.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 11:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

wizulis wrote:
well, download iwlwifi-5000-ucode-8.83.5.1-1.tar.gz unpack it somewhere and copy the file iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode to /lib/firmware and then reload the driver.


Thanks.
I just don't know how to reload drivers. Which command?
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 1:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Canonically, modprobe -r ${module_to_unload} then modprobe ${module_to_load}, see man 8 modprobe for the gory details
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 1:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

desultory wrote:
Canonically, modprobe -r ${module_to_unload} then modprobe ${module_to_load}, see man 8 modprobe for the gory details


Thanks.
I thought this command can't work with *.ucode file. I will look at it
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 9:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

emerge --search iwl

emerge iwl5000-ucode
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 4:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

wizulis wrote:
well, download iwlwifi-5000-ucode-8.83.5.1-1.tar.gz unpack it somewhere and copy the file iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode to /lib/firmware and then reload the driver.


Alternatively you can:
Code:

# echo "=sys-firmware/iwl5000-ucode-8.83.5.1" >> /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords
# emerge -au sys-firmware/iwl5000-ucode

Since version 8.83.5.1 is masked at the time of this post. Version 8.24.2.12 provides iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode and the driver is expecting v5. After installing the firmware:
Code:

# ls /lib/firmware/ | grep -i iwlwifi
iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode


Sincerely,

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