Intel santa rosa platform and GENTOO support [SOLVED]

[dj_unforgetable]

you'll have to forgive my ignorace, but I don't see an x86_64 image, only an x86 (and all the other supported arch's)

[pilla]

x86_64 = amd64.

[shil]

about the processor itself i don't know but there is already support, even if experimental, for the 4965AGN adaptor with the iwlwifi project

it can be installed manually by following http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Toshiba ... e_P200-141 instructions
or
1. adding the sunrise overlay
2. copying the iwlwifi and iwlwifi-ucode ebuilds to a local overlay
3. changing all the occurrences of 3945 to 4965 in the iwlwifi and iwlwifi-ucode ebuilds
4. bump iwlwifi version to iwlwifi-0.0.25-r1
5. bump iwlwifi-ucode version to 4.44.14

emerge iwlwifi and recompile the kernel

the module's name is iwl4965 and it's working great with Networkmanager, just dropping the connection every once in a while

(if you don't want the sunrise overlay then the mac80211 must also be copied to the local overlay before removing it)

[Kyoukolnx]

the module's name is iwl4965 and it's working great with Networkmanager, just dropping the connection every once in a while

Did you need to install any other programs/make changes to any config files to get the device to show up? I followed the instructions on the intellinuxwireless.org website and everything seems to load fine, but I don't have anything showing up in either networkmanager or iwconfig.

dmesg

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iwl4965: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN driver for Linux, 0.0.32d
iwl4965: Copyright(c) 2003-2007 Intel Corporation

lsmod

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Module                   Size    Used by
iwl4965               178788   0 
mac80211            105860  1 iwl4965
cfg80211                 4616  1 mac80211

Yet, iwconfig

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eth0      no wireless extensions.

lo        no wireless extensions.

sit0      no wireless extensions.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

[shil]

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iwl4965: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN driver for Linux, 0.0.32d
iwl4965: Copyright(c) 2003-2007 Intel Corporation
iwl4965: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN
iwl4965: Channel 14 [2.4GHz] is Tx only -- skipping.
iwl4965: Channel 183 [5.2GHz] is Tx only -- skipping.
iwl4965: Channel 184 [5.2GHz] is Tx only -- skipping.
iwl4965: Channel 185 [5.2GHz] is Tx only -- skipping.
iwl4965: Channel 187 [5.2GHz] is Tx only -- skipping.
iwl4965: Channel 188 [5.2GHz] is Tx only -- skipping.
iwl4965: Channel 189 [5.2GHz] is Tx only -- skipping.
iwl4965: Channel 192 [5.2GHz] is Tx only -- skipping.
iwl4965: Channel 196 [5.2GHz] is Tx only -- skipping.
iwl4965: Channel 7 [5.2GHz] is Tx only -- skipping.
iwl4965: Channel 8 [5.2GHz] is Tx only -- skipping.
iwl4965: Channel 11 [5.2GHz] is Tx only -- skipping.
iwl4965: Channel 12 [5.2GHz] is Tx only -- skipping.
iwl4965: Channel 16 [5.2GHz] is Tx only -- skipping.
iwl4965: Channel 34 [5.2GHz] is Tx only -- skipping.
iwl4965: Channel 38 [5.2GHz] is Tx only -- skipping.
iwl4965: Channel 42 [5.2GHz] is Tx only -- skipping.
iwl4965: Channel 46 [5.2GHz] is Tx only -- skipping.
iwl4965: Channel 145 [5.2GHz] is Tx only -- skipping.
iwl4965: Channel 149 [5.2GHz] is Tx only -- skipping.
iwl4965: Channel 153 [5.2GHz] is Tx only -- skipping.
iwl4965: Channel 157 [5.2GHz] is Tx only -- skipping.
iwl4965: Channel 161 [5.2GHz] is Tx only -- skipping.
iwl4965: Channel 165 [5.2GHz] is Tx only -- skipping.
iwl4965: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 19 802.11a channels
iwl4965: Unhandled INTA bits 0x04000000
iwl4965: Disabled INTA bits 0x04000000 were pending
iwl4965:    with FH_INT = 0x00010000
iwl4965: REPLY_CT_KILL_CONFIG_CMD succeeded

this is my dmesg, after the load of the module it detects the card and creates two new interfaces

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11a ESSID:"".....

i am now using the iwlwifi-0.0.32 and iwlwifi-ucode-4.44.15, but it has been working with previous versions

kernel

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2.6.21-gentoo-r3

lsmod
(same as yours)

could you post the link with the instruction from intellinuxwireless.org

[Kyoukolnx]

could you post the link with the instruction from intellinuxwireless.org

Sure, I built the mac80211 with the intellinux mac80211 howto instructions. Then I built iwlwifi with their instructions here.

Is your firmware in /lib/firmware/ ? I've got /lib/firmware/iwlwifi04965.ucode

[sonaatti]

Only issue I'm having with the santa rosa platform is the dvdrom, seems as it is not recognized at all. I had to compile the kernel without the generic ide driver, else it would be used instead of intels... could this be the issue ?

gentoo-sources-2.6.22

[linuxkrn]

I have kernel panics on 2.6.22-gentoo-r2 with these drivers. Followed the instructions, and I get the same ouput as shil, but within a few minutes I get a kernel panic. So I'm just using a USB wireless at the moment.

[uxbod]

I have just brought a ROCK X770 which has a Santa-Rosa chip. I have installed X86 which appears to be fine, but before getting to carried away is it worth putting X86_64 on it instead ?

[linuxkrn]

Unless you have a need for 64bit don't use it. Do you have > 3GB of RAM? Are you using applications that need 64bits? While almost everything works, there are still several things that do not work in 64bit. finally, if you have x86 installed already, why reinstall for something you probably don't need? (Disclaimer, if you knew you needed 64 bits for ______, then that's different)

By the way, did you get the Wireless working?

[uxbod]

Have stuck with X86. In the process of rebuilding my notebook again, but with respect to the WiFi issue I see another kernel module for RFKILL. This ties in with the error I was getting before, so have enabled that and will give it another go when I get home later.