I compiled kernel 2.6.25 with iwl4965. But it not work for me and I don't know why. laptok ~ # dmesg iwl4965: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN driver for Linux, 1.2.23kds iwl4965: Copyright(c) 2003-2007 Intel Corporation ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:04:00.0 to 64 iwl4965: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN iwl4965: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 19 802.11a channels phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-4965-rs' ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:04:00.0 disabled <cut/> wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0 wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:01:e3:06:00:35 wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0 wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:01:e3:06:00:35 wlan0: RX authentication from 00:01:e3:06:00:35 (alg=0 transaction=2 status=0) wlan0: authenticated wlan0: associate with AP 00:01:e3:06:00:35 iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:04:00.0 disabled laptok ~ # ifconfig wlan0 up SIOCSIFFLAGS: Nie ma takiego urządzenia laptok ~ # zcat /proc/config.gz # # Wireless LAN # # CONFIG_WLAN_PRE80211 is not set CONFIG_WLAN_80211=y CONFIG_IWL4965=y CONFIG_IWL4965_QOS=y CONFIG_IWL4965_HT=y CONFIG_IWL4965_SPECTRUM_MEASUREMENT=y CONFIG_IWL4965_SENSITIVITY=y CONFIG_IWL4965_DEBUG=y laptok ~ # lspci 04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 4229 (rev 61) My config: Laptop Asus S96S, SantaRosa, NVidia 8600GS laptok ~ # uname -a Linux laptok 2.6.25-gentoo-r1 #7 SMP Sun Apr 20 14:01:58 CEST 2008 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux Reproducible: Always
laptok ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.2.3, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.25-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz Timestamp of tree: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:33:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.5 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r9 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17-r1, 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.24 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/openjms/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/4.0/env /usr/kde/4.0/share/config /usr/kde/4.0/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="pl_PL.UTF-8" LC_ALL="pl_PL.UTF-8" LINGUAS="pl pl_PL" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/java-overlay /usr/portage/local/layman/postgresql-testing /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="7zip X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib accessibility acl acpi addbookmarks additions agg aio alias alsa amr amrnb amrwb apache2 arts avahi bash-completion berkdb bigpatch binary-drivers blender-game bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo caps cdda cddb cdr cli connectionstatus contactnotes cracklib crypt css cups curl cvs cygnal daap dbus dc1394 dga dhcp directfb disk-partition divx doc dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdnav dvdr dvdread ecc emboss enca encode epydoc evo expat fam fb fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac fltk fontconfig fortran fpx ftp gd gdbm geos gif gimp glitz gnokii gnutls gpac gphoto2 gpm graphviz gs gsm gstreamer gtk gtkhtml guile hal hdri highlight history htmlhandbook httpd ical iconv id3 id3tag idea ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib ipw4965 isdnlog jabber jack jai java java5 javacomm javamail javascript jbig jce jingle jmf jms jmx jpeg jpeg2k jpgraph jython kcal kde kdepim kerberos keyring konqueror ladspa lame lcms ldap libnotify libsamplerate libvisual lm_sensors log4j logrotate lzo mad matroska mbrola mdnsresponder-compat midi mikmod mjpeg mmx mmxext mng mod modplug mozdevelop mp3 mp4 mp4live mpeg mpeg2 mpi mplayer mudflap multicall multislot multiuser musepack musicbrainz mysql mysqli ncurses neon nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs nvram obex odk ogg openal openexr opengl openmp pam pango parallel parse-clocks pcmcia pcre pda pdf perl php plotutils png postgres povray pppd proj python q32 q8 qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime rar readline real realmedia reflection rhino rle rtc rtsp samba sasl script sdl sensord servlet-2_4 servletapi session skins smp sms sndfile sound soundtouch soup sox speech speex spell spl sql sqlite srt sse sse2 ssl ssse3 statistics stream subversion svg svnserve swig syslog tcl tcpd teamarena tga theora threads threadsafe tiff timidity tivo tools tordns truetype unicode upnp urandom usb v4l v4l2 vcd visualization vlm vorbis wavpack webdav wifi win32codecs winbind wmf wmp x264 x86 xanim xforms xine xml xorg xosd xpm xprint xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="pl pl_PL" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
same symptoms, although running amd64.
gentoo-sources not works too laptok ~ # dmesg | grep -E "(iwl)|(4965)" iwl4965: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN driver for Linux, 1.2.23kds iwl4965: Copyright(c) 2003-2007 Intel Corporation iwl4965: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN iwl4965: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 19 802.11a channels phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-4965-rs' iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC
Welcome to the club guys. Couple things you might wanna try here. Boot with "noapic" in the kernel command. Also, create /etc/modules.d/iwl4965 and try playing with the following options: options iwl4965 hwcrypto=1 disable_hw_scan=1 I have been playing with various kernels, including 2.6.26 (although I'm back to 2.6.25 due to various instability issues). Still had the same problem.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/5/373 laptok ~ # echo 0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/iwl4965/0000\:04\:00.0/rf_kill laptok ~ # iwconfig wlan0 txpower on laptok ~ # /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart And it's works! Why I have to run this two line (0>rf_kill and txpower on) before wifi starts?
why is this bug reported for x86 ? I have the same issue on amd64. Is there anyone with the same problem on 32bit arch ?
I have this problem too. In 25 and recent 26 kernels. Unfortunately, none of the resolutions posted here worked for me. I have a Lenovo thinkpad T61. It seems for me, that, during startup, the driver wakes up and searches for avaiable connections. It these are not there, it falls into sleep forever and one cannot wake it up.
I have the same problem on compal fl90 with kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r8, 2.6.25-gentoo-r6 and 2.6.26. My architecture is ~amd64. On 2.6.25-r6: # /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device * Wireless radio has been killed for interface wlan0 # dmesg | grep 'iwl' iwl4965: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN driver for Linux, 1.2.23kds iwl4965: Copyright(c) 2003-2007 Intel Corporation iwl4965: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN iwl4965: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 19 802.11a channels phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-4965-rs' iwl4965: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch iwl4965: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch iwl4965: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch iwl4965: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch iwl4965: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch iwl4965: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch # lsmod Module Size Used by ... iwl4965 197876 0 ... mac80211 is build-in. # iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=27 dBm Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B Encryption key:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 When I checked 'iwlist wlan0 scan', I got an 'non-supported scanning' message. The similar error I've got on ndiswrapper with 64-bits drivers.
It seems that intel got aware of this problem: http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1657 And fixed it, as others say (i have not tried it yet, since I would have to compile a new kernel and I'm lazy these days). The new drivers are stored by intel in a project called compat-wireless http://linuxwireless.org/ However, it seems that till now, gentoo has no officially ebuild for this project. To ask the developers, if they would provide an ebuild for these wlan drivers, I filed a new Bug at: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234139 Hopefully, there's an ebuild soon...
I tried a new compat-wireless and have the same problem what I've had before. On kernel-2.6.25-r6 I had some warnings in dmesg, like "iwl4965: Unknown symbol ..." - problem was with mac80211 which hasn't one function: '__ieee80211'. So I compiled kernel-2.6.25-r7. Problem with mac80211 disappeared, but output in dmesg is the same I putted above. Can someone to confirm? I don't known it's my mistake?
I think one should write, that this problem is better suited for the intel bugzilla: http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1657 so, I think the bug there should be reopened...
Lukasz, the HW RF Kill Switch is likely something that is enabled in the BIOS of your machine that disables your WIFI. I was having similar (but not identical) issues with the iwl3945 driver on my Dell E1505 laptop. While investigating that issue, I played around with the BIOS, specifically with regard to WIFI, and confirmed that disabling it in BIOS resulted in the "HW RF Kill Switch" message you are seeing. I am using the vanilla-sources as of 2.5 weeks ago (I think that means 2.26.25-r6) along with the intel-compat package version ~07/28/08 (mentioned above). After installing the modules from intel-compat my WIFI has worked like a charm. I would post the pertinent portions of my kernel's .config file, but I don't have access to it at the moment. Perhaps this is an iwl4965 problem only, but I would suggest checking those issues.
Ok, I tried to change my wifi slot in laptop and... intel 4965agn works fine on one of two slots... strange thing. It looks like intel 4965agn is dedicated (?) wifi-card on Compals FL90. Some users of intel 4965agn on Compal FL90 have the same problem. Now, iwl4965 from kernel-2.6.25-r7 works great after three weeks... - it was a battle.
I've updated to latest net-wireless/iwl4965-ucode-228.57.1.21 version of firmware drivers and it still doesn't work. However the net-wireless/iwl4965-ucode-228.57.2.21 seems to be better (see bug 231485): it doesn't return the "SIOCSIFFLAGS" message, but I still can't receive any IP address from DHCP server. I am using kernel 2.6.25.9 on amd64 platform.
I do have the same problem with 4229 card ( using iwl4269 driver ) on amd64 gentoo with 2.6.26 kernel This trick laptok ~ # echo 0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/iwl4965/0000\:04\:00.0/rf_kill laptok ~ # iwconfig wlan0 txpower on laptok ~ # /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart Is deprecated now since there is an in-kernel option for this one on 2.6.26 but still doesnt work Have you found any solution yet? Is there an ebuild for intel-compat driver? Thanks
All, I'm afraid this wont be resolved upstream until the following two Intel bugzilla bugs are closed: http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1700 http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1657 wireless-compat may resolve the issue. upgrading to 2.6.27 may also resolve the issue, but no official word from Intel yet. These issues are also apparent on iwl3945. So any related Gentoo bugs should about these similar issues are likely related.
On 2.6.26 the RF_Kill option is included in kernels' configuration.
with the newest firmware (which is masked) and the compat wireless drivers http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download I now have success to get the card working on a 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 Kernel. I do not know if there are problems with 2.6.26 or 2.6.27 kernels. Maybe there are.
Have a look http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-707893.html I need to add - I'd experienced with both problems reported here before playing with timeouts. (Couldn't connect & occasional disconnect.) -alexdu
At least with kernel-2.6.28 this seems to work ok for me
I think this bug can be closed. iwl4965 works fine since 2.6.29. Rf kill works fine on 2.6.30 and quite good on 2.6.29. I want to ask if someone menaged to test N links, and can say about resoult? I have teted it on wrt160N but i can get only 60Mb/s on linux, and about 3x more on vista.
