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Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5100 [8086:4232] not working in Ubuntu 9.04 BETA - UNCLAIMED driver - 8086:4232

Asked by DCrashA

Ubuntu 9.04 beta and Auto-NDISWrapper

I've been using Ubuntu since 2004 and I know there have been similar problems in the past with wifi cards and Ubuntu (especially with athreos cards and acer comps), but I can't seem to make my wireless card work. Auto-NDISwrapper would be great if it was compatible with my card, but it is not. Likewise with old school NDISwrapper I can at least use my .inf file to load a driver, but I still can't get the wireless to work. It looks like NDISwrapper refuses to work with my card. I am writing this in hopes that before Ubuntu 9.04 actually comes out the problem might be resolved. Right now I am using 9.04 beta. Below is the card type. I hope somebody can help.

Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5100 (laptop)

Some more info below:
Terminal Command: ndiswrapper -l
Result:
netw5x32 : driver installed
 device (8086:4232) present (alternate driver: iwlagn)

Terminal command: sudo lshw -C network
Result:
*-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Network controller
       product: Wireless WiFi Link 5100
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: 00
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 01
       serial: 00:1c:c0:7b:49:32
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI ip=10.1.0.21 latency=0 module=r8169 multicast=yes
  *-network DISABLED
       description: Ethernet interface
       physical id: 2
       logical name: pan0
       serial: ee:c7:b7:d1:44:a0
       capabilities: ethernet physical
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bridge driverversion=2.3 firmware=N/A multicast=yes

Many thanks,
David

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DCrashA (dcrasha-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

If anyone needs more specs, the following is what the system test shows, but the card still does not work:

Wireless WiFi Link 5100
Property Value
info.subsystem pci
info.product Wireless WiFi Link 5100
info.udi /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_4232
info.vendor Intel Corporation
info.parent /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_2940
pci.product Wireless WiFi Link 5100
pci.vendor_id 32902
pci.vendor Intel Corporation
pci.product_id 16946
pci.device_protocol 0
pci.subsys_vendor Intel Corporation
pci.device_subclass 128
pci.subsys_vendor_id 32902
pci.device_class 2
pci.subsys_product_id 4865
pci.linux.sysfs_path /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:01:00.0
linux.hotplug_type 2
linux.subsystem pci
linux.sysfs_path /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:01:00.0

Thanks again,
David

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Best Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#2

Hi,

Please follow the detailed instructions here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5754065&postcount=62

Make sure to install both the firmware (http://intellinuxwireless.org/iwlwifi/downloads/iwlwifi-5000-ucode-5.4.A.11.tar.gz
) and the drivers (http://wireless.kernel.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2) . The firmware files need to be copied to /lib/firmware.

Instead of downloading compat-wireless-old.tar.bz2 (which is for kernel 2.6.24), please download, compile and install the following drivers instead (which is for kernels more recent than 2.6.27):

http://wireless.kernel.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2

See the following link for detailed build and installation instructions:

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download#Wheretodownload

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Mark

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DCrashA (dcrasha-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#3

It might take me a while to test if this solves my problem, but it does look like the type of answer I was trying to find. I actually have a few other computers I need to work on before I make it back to my own. I just wanted thank you for the help and let you know I will see if this does the trick as soon as I can get back to working on my own comp. The official release of Ubuntu 9.04 comes out in two weeks, so I might also wait for then to do a fresh install and see if the problem still exist on initial install. Thank you, so much for the links and info. I searched a long time and somehow never ran across those links.

Mahalo,
David

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DCrashA (dcrasha-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#4

Thanks Mark Rijckenberg, that solved my question.