linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] Wifi Link 5300 and 5100 Series

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Message-ID: <20080814191347.GA9662@ele.uri.edu>
Date:	Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:13:47 -0400
From:	Will Simoneau <simoneau@....uri.edu>
To:	Tomas Winkler <tomasw@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ipw3945-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Wifi Link 5300 and 5100 Series

On 21:09 Thu 14 Aug     , Tomas Winkler wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Will Simoneau <simoneau@....uri.edu> wrote:
> > On 16:03 Thu 14 Aug     , Tomas Winkler wrote:
> >> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Tomas Winkler <tomasw@...il.com> wrote:
> >> > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Will Simoneau <simoneau@....uri.edu> wrote:
> >> >> On 00:11 Thu 14 Aug     , Tomas Winkler wrote:
> >> >>> Intel would like to announce Linux support  for Wifi Link 5000 and
> >> >>> 5100 Series Adapters under iwlwifi driver (iwlagn.ko)
> >> >>>
> >> >> ...
> >> >>> The best known working driver can be located in iwl500 branch of
> >> >>> iwlwifi-2.6.git
> >> >>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/iwlwifi-2.6.git iwl5000
> >> >>
> >> >> This is great news to me - my new Sager laptop has a 5300 card. However,
> >> >> it doesn't seem to work:
> >> >>
> >>
> >> Can you send me the exact laptop type?
> >> Thanks
> >
> > It's a Sager NP5796 (Clevo M570TU).
> >
> 
> >git-checkout -b iwl5000 origin/iwl5000
> Tomas

OK, that gave me very different kernel/driver versions.
uname -r: 2.6.26-rc6-iwl-2.3.5-wl

dmesg:

iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, 2.3.5ks
iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2008 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:07:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:07:00.0 to 64
iwlagn: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 5300AGN REV=0x24
iwlagn: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 24 802.11a channels
phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-agn-rs'
input: 5300AGN as /class/input/input7
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:07:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
firmware: requesting iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode
iwlagn: START_ALIVE timeout after 4000ms.

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