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kevin22 n00b
Joined: 06 Sep 2009 Posts: 37
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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 7:48 am Post subject: Problems with T61 WLAN (iwl4965) |
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Hello
I'm very new to linux and gentoo and just installed Gentoo on my ibm/lenovo t61.
Everything works fine except for the wireless network.
It has a Intel 4965 nic so I selected it in the kernel menu and compiled it. After that didn't work, I selected every intel driver from the WLAN Menu (*, not module). Didn't help.
Then I emerged the iwl4965-ucode firmware.
wlan0 finally appeared in the iwconfig result, but with "no wireless extension".
What else can I do?
btw. Something else is weird. When I make menuconfig in /usr/src/linux and build the Kernel, it puts it into arch/x86/boot/bzLinux instead of arch/x86_64, even though it is for 64 bit archit. according to uname -a and the title in menuconfig. |
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comprookie2000 Retired Dev
Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 925 Location: Sun City Center, Florida
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khayyam Watchman
Joined: 07 Jun 2012 Posts: 6227 Location: Room 101
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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 1:39 pm Post subject: |
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kevin22 ...
this sounds as though you have CFG80211 but not CFG80211_WEXT enabled in the kernel. However, the lack of WEXT (which is the in the process of being replaced by netlink NL80211/CFG80211) shouldn't cause any issues, except that commands (like iwconfig) which use WEXT won't provide the expected information. So, as long as '-D nl80211' is stipulated as the driver to wpa_supplicant you should be able to establish a connection, and net-wireless/iw can be used in place of iwconfig (or simply enable CFG80211_WEXT for compatability with WEXT).
HTH & best ... khay |
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