lists.openwall.net | lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC | |
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
| ||
|
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:16:56 -0500 From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net> To: werner <w.landgraf@...ru> CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, dave.taht@...il.com, rientjes@...gle.com, arend@...adcom.com, toralf.foerster@....de, wey-yi.w.guy@...el.com, ilw@...ux.intel.com, larry.finger@...il.com Subject: Re: 3.1-rc9 wifi problem On 10/16/2011 08:33 PM, werner wrote: > I have to wait until the friend with the laptop comes back, perhaps this week. > Then I can look what wireless card is in it. > > However, now I remember me: that laptop worked only good since 2.6.39 with the > new kernel-embedded modules. Before, it didn't work normally, i.e. on booting > the wireless almost never didn't switch on; only ocasionally . > > > And, beside of kernel 2.6.39, and the normal wifi software, I still had him to > install a file iwlwifi-1000-3.ucode or .5 ucode (i'm not sure, the number can > also be 5000), and I had the problem to search long time for that file because > one find only .2 or .4 in internet but what don't work at that wifi card. You > could improve the kernel-module so that everything is included so that one don't > need to search such files. That will not happen. In fact, the trend is from having firmware be a part of the driver to having it be external. I don't know what distro you use, but mine (openSUSE) maintains a package called kernel-firmware that contains all the redistributable firmware that is available from tne linux-firmware git tree. If that package is installed, then you do not have to search for firmware in most cases. If your distro does not have such a package, then complain or find another distro. > Then, with this kernel and that file however, it worked without any problem. > > I hope from these informations you can find out what wifi card or what driver is > in the laptop. We can tell that you have an Intel card, but not much more. Larry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists