Does it support the intel 4965AGN?

[timonoj]

Hi, I'm quite annoyed by the (lack of) support of the Intel 4965AGN in the Feisty distro -running with ndiswrapper, so I'm thinking about moving to the gutsy...Is there any support for this wifi card? Thanks!

[Fintan]

Re: Does it support the intel 4965AGN?

Try looking in google. You know:

www.google.com

Intel 4965AGN and gutsy

you will find this:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=2880055

Enjoy

[yther]

Re: Does it support the intel 4965AGN?

You know, it's fine that the reference you give says it works "out of the box," but I've just un-boxed Gutsy here and my 4965AGN card does not work. Oh, the kernel modules load, and some tools can see the card, but they give silly results. Kwifimanager can see the card but it doesn't get used. Another tool (kwavemon, I think it's called) sees the card, but signal strength waffles from 0 to some ridiculously huge negative number and back again. Neither of these can detect the numerous WLANs that are reachable here, and when I feed them my SSID & such by hand they can't connect, or say they are connected but still don't work.

All this without even turning on the little blue light that says the card is on, even though the switch is.

So, um... exactly which box is it out of, now?

[Guest]

Re: Does it support the intel 4965AGN?

I don't think there's any problem with the 4965AGN driver, as I'm using it right at this moment. Unfortunately it seems that the NetworkManager is all messed up. Been fighting this one today as recent updates have pretty much rendered my KNetworkManager useless for wireless use.

To get things working manually I did the following, with sudo for each command, for WPA Personal connection.

1st, see if you can see wireless access points
# iwlist wlan0 scanning

2nd, kill the NetworkManager
# killall NetworkManager

3rd, point the wlan interface to your SSID
# iwconfig wlan0 essid mynetwork

4th, slap together a wpa_supplicant.conf file. The first example on the man page for this is a great starting point. Just put in your station ID and PSK. I stored this as wpahome.conf under /etc/wpa_supplicant.

5th, start up that wpa goodness. The following puts it into the background with the -B.
# wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpahome.conf -B

Lastly, I requested a DHCP assignment from my router
# dhclient wlan0

Phew! All that gets me a solid wireless connection. I would MUCH rather have NetworkManager do its job and handle all of this for me. The point of my writing all this is that I believe the card itself is working properly. The problem is with the NetworkManager.

[Snowhog]

Re: Does it support the intel 4965AGN?

Have you tried using KWifimanager instead?

[Guest]

Re: Does it support the intel 4965AGN?

Have you tried using KWifimanager instead?

Not as of yet. I was mostly looking to determine if the driver or the NetworkManager was at fault. Since my previous post I've installed wicd, and it seems to do a pretty decent job. I have to manually switch between wired and wireless, but it has a simple and quick GUI for doing so.

If I get a chance I'll give it a look. What I'd really like to see is NetworkManager fixed so folks won't have to jump through these kinds of hoops in the future.

[cavedude]

Re: Does it support the intel 4965AGN?

Metrol - thanks for the heads up on wicd. For now it seems like a better solution then KNetworkManager on my laptop using 4965AGN.