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From: Vladimir Rusinov <vladimir@×××××××××.info>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless intel 4965 howto
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:26:22
Message-Id: f6fdfb550902230026t3c296ccar81f07d5566dfd88d@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Wireless intel 4965 howto by Alexander Puchmayr
1 On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Alexander Puchmayr <
2 alexander.puchmayr@×××××××.at> wrote:
3
4 > Hi there!
5 >
6 > Is there a working howto of how to get the wireless connection to work?
7 > Its a built-in chipset, intel 4965AG, and it was working with kernel
8 > 2.6.24,
9 > but I fail with any kernel newer. 2.6.26 had serious problems with
10 > rfkill-switch, and the only way for me was to unload the driver module,
11 > switch on the wifi-interface, load module again and then it worked. A
12 > little bit clumsy, but it worked.
13
14
15 Oh, you are lucky, I've fixed this problem some minutes ago and now I see
16 your message.
17 You probably have something like 'failed to load firmware' on your dmegs.
18 So, you have to go to http://intellinuxwireless/, download firmware for your
19 chip, unpack it and copy to /lib/firmware.
20
21 HTH
22
23 --
24 Vladimir Rusinov
25 http://greenmice.info/

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