Can not get wireless card to even show up

[pytheas22]

Did you check the config.mk file in the compat-wireless source to make sure that it says to build iwlagn? Also, is an iwlagn.ko (and/or iwl4965.ko) module being built in the source directory when you run 'make'? Maybe it's just an issue of iwlagn.ko not being copied properly when you run 'make install'.

[Aarookie]

try this
Open a terminal and enter these commands:
(this is also assuming like me the target computer has no way of getting to the internet, if you have RJ45 plugged in or some alternate method of connecting to internet you can skip first step.

1. Insert your Ubuntu cd and open terminal
2.sudo apt-cdrom add
3.sudo apt-get install build-essential (Not sure this part is necessary but it sure was for proper tarballing when I was trying to install multiple tar.gz files.
4.sudo apt-get install ndisgtk

5.Open system>administration>Windows wireless drivers menu/program.
6.My computer sort of stuttered at this point but eventually a little window opened up and I was able to browse to my .inf file from winxp driver.
7.For some reason configure network didn't work at this point the unlock button was greyed out, also mouse pointer was skipping a few beats every so often but after a restart I am able to click on my 2 little computers in the gnome task bar and attempt to connect to my network same way I have done on my laptop here. At this point however I was unable to connect to wpa type network, switched router back to wep and hooked right up

[BananaJoe]

Does somebody knows if the WLAN 5300 Chip meanwhile is supported out of the box when i use a current distro (Like Ubuntu 8.10)?

Regards

[pytheas22]

Yes, Intel 5300 chips should probably work out-of-the-box on Ubuntu 8.10 (but there are different versions of the 5300 card so without seeing your 'lspci -nn' output, it's impossible to verify that your particular version will definitely work).

In Ubuntu 8.04 and earlier you would have to install a driver yourself.

[BananaJoe]

Sound's good, thank you!

[Agkelos]

Sorry for "digging" this thread, but I have some sort of a problem.

I have a laptop with this wireless card, a Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5300 AGN, and it works fine out-of-the-box in Ubuntu 8.10. The problem is that sometimes the card doesn't "start". The wireless light in my laptop is off, and no wireless for me .
I didn't noticed any pattern for this happening, it looks like a random event.

Is there some kind of answer for this problem? It's kind of annoying.

[pytheas22]

Sorry for "digging" this thread, but I have some sort of a problem.

I have a laptop with this wireless card, a Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5300 AGN, and it works fine out-of-the-box in Ubuntu 8.10. The problem is that sometimes the card doesn't "start". The wireless light in my laptop is off, and no wireless for me .
I didn't noticed any pattern for this happening, it looks like a random event.

Is there some kind of answer for this problem? It's kind of annoying.

The first thing to check is that the wireless is not turned off via a physical switch. If you have a button or software key-combination that you press to toggle the wireless on or off, check that.

It's also possible that the module is not being loaded automatically at boot, even though it should be. Try running this command once:

echo iwlagn | sudo tee -a /etc/modules

which will tell the system to load the driver explicitly.

If this doesn't help, please post the output of these commands the next time you boot and the card isn't working:

lshw -C Network
dmesg | grep -e wlan -e iwl
sudo iwlist scan

[schoelli]

Hi
If got a Lenovo W500 with Intel Wifi 5300 included. I installed Ubuntu 9.04 and configurated with wpa_supplicant it like it is described on: http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/WLAN/wpa_supplicant

My wpa_supplicant.conf:
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1

network={
ssid="XXXX"
scan_ssid=1
proto=RSN
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=CCMP TKIP
group=TKIP
psk=psk string translated by using wps_passphrase "SSID 63 ASCII Chars"
}

After: sudo wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -D wext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -dd which seems to run forever without any errors.

I execute: sudo wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -D wext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -B

No errors.

So i dlike to get an ip using: sudo dhclient wlan0
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.pid with pid 4340
killed old client process, removed PID file
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:21:6a:6e:0d:ae
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:21:6a:6e:0d:ae
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

Someones got any idea what else i could try to get conected?

More infos:

iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:14:C1:19:EB:84
ESSID:"XXXX"
Mode:Master
Channel:11
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality=77/100 Signal level:-57 dBm Noise level=-127 dBm
Encryption keyn
IE: Unknown: 000A46697368383154726565
IE: Unknown: 010882848B962430486C
IE: Unknown: 03010B
IE: Unknown: 2A0100
IE: Unknown: 2F0100
IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (2) : CCMP TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
IE: Unknown: 32040C121860
IE: Unknown: DD060010180200F4
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (2) : CCMP TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Extra:tsf=0000000121a7e52d
Extra: Last beacon: 4296ms ago
My Router is an: U.S. Robotics Wireless MAXg ADSL Gateway

iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"XXXX"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=15 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thr=2352 B
Power Managementff
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

pan0 no wireless extensions.

Do you need any more informations please let me know!
Thank you in advance for any advise!

I already tryed for hours many diffrent configurations!!

Regards,
Schoelli

[pytheas22]

schoelli: instead of trying to connect manually from the command line, I'd recommend that you give wicd a try. You can install wicd by typing:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wicd

Then launch it from the Applications>Internet menu. Are you able to connect then?

It should not really be necessary to use wpa_supplicant from the command line.

[ndmiller]

I am new to Linux and installed 9.10 on my Latitude 2100 that has an intel 5300 wireless card. Here is the output of the two commands. Any help you can offer would be appreciated.

lspci -nn

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Memory Controller Hub [8086:27ac] (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27ae] (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27a6] (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:27d2] (rev 01)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 [8086:27d6] (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:27b9] (rev 01)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller [8086:27c5] (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:27da] (rev 01)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5764M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe [14e4:1684] (rev 10)
0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5300 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection [8086:4235]

lshw -C network

  *-network DISABLED      
       description: Wireless interface
       product: PRO/Wireless 5300 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:0c:00.0
       logical name: wmaster0
       version: 00
       serial: 00:21:6a:4a:d3:1c
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlagn latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn
       resources: irq:28 memory:f6dfe000-f6dfffff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: NetXtreme BCM5764M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:09:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 10
       serial: 00:22:19:f8:37:63
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=tg3 driverversion=3.99 firmware=5764m-v3.35 ip=192.168.1.80 latency=0 multicast=yes
       resources: irq:29 memory:f6cf0000-f6cfffff

The card is recognized but disabled. I made sure it was on during the boot process, but don't know how to enable it.

Noah