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wireless network setting problem with intel 4965AGN wireless card

Asked by ktym08

I have a weird problem.

My system is Vistro 1400 with Intel 4965 AGN wireless-N card, and I have installed Ubuntu 7.10 lately.

At boot and manually configuring the network settings (under System->Administration-> Network), the wireless network connects fine. I can check email and look at the internet.

However, after a little while (maybe half hour) the network will break up completely. If I re-open the "Network Preference", I will see "wireless password type" has been changed from "WPA2" to WPA", and the "password" will be changed too to something different (3 or 4 times longer than my orignal password). Note that during all the time, the laptop has not moved from where it was.
Though I have saved configuration under a location name, I cannot see it in the "location" pull down. And everytime when saved under the same previous location name, there is no over-write warnings.

Each time, I have to either re-configure the wireless connection or re-boot and re-configure to connect to the network again.

Would appreciate if anyone has any idea what is going on...
thank you.

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Best Johannes Pilkahn (j-pilkahn) said : 		#1

I haven't run any Ubuntu release on a system with your specific card, but may be these two links will be helpful:

http://kuscsik.blogspot.com/2007/06/how-to-install-intel-4965-wireless.html

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Intel_4965_AGN_WiFi_Driver/Fiesty (unfortunately Feisty documentation...)

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ktym08 (kittymama) said : 		#2

Thank you very much for the links.

I am not 100% sure if this is the one fixed it though.
All I did last night was to run the command in the terminal

sudo modprobe iwl4965.

and this morning when I turned on the computer, I was able to save the network settings as location and can recall it.
so far the it worked ok.

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ktym08 (kittymama) said : 		#3

Thanks northern lights, that solved my question.

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ktym08 (kittymama) said : 		#4

I happen to have reinstalled ubuntu 7.10 again. And this time, I only ran the update manager and made updates. Once power cycled, I was able to save the network setting in a location. So it seems to me, with 7.10 updates, the wireless card works just fine.