iwl4965 firmware

[xiaoqiangyang]

Hi everyone,

I placed a iwl4965 into the mini pcie slot and power on my MX6Q SABRE SD board.After I entered linux,

I can find it by 'lspci':

root@linaro-ubuntu-desktop:~# lspci

00:00.0 PCI bridge: Device 16c3:abcd (rev 01)

01:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN Network Connection (rev 61)

But it seems not to work,when I type 'ifconfig',it shows:

root@linaro-ubuntu-desktop:~# ifconfig

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:9f:02:cd:2e

inet addr:192.168.2.115 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:576 Metric:1

RX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:31 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:4245 (4.2 KB) TX bytes:4400 (4.4 KB)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback

inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0

UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1

RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

And during start up,I found some related Information--->

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fec_enet_mii_bus: probed

iwl4965: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi 4965 driver for Linux, in-tree:

iwl4965: Copyright(c) 2003-2011 Intel Corporation

PCI: enabling device 0000:01:00.0 (0140 -> 0142)

iwl4965 0000:01:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN, REV=0x4

iwl4965 0000:01:00.0: device EEPROM VER=0x36, CALIB=0x5

iwl4965 0000:01:00.0: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 4 802.11a channels

IMX-PCIe: MSI 0x3f01 @0x0:0x1ff8000, irq = 497

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iwl4965 0000:01:00.0: request for firmware file 'iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode' failed.

iwl4965 0000:01:00.0: no suitable firmware found!

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Where can I find its firmware? How to use?

Thanks in advance!

Xiaoqiang

[cblack]

I am having the same issue.

The FW file 'iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode', no matter where I put it, the driver does not seem to want to load the file
(/lib/firmware, lib/firmware/3.10.7/, etc)

You can locate the firmware from "linux-firmware" (git clone http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git)

[xiaoqiangyang]

Hi Curt,

I downloaded the firmware and placed it to /lib/firmware/, the wlan is working well now, thanks!

[kennywang]

Hi Xiaoqiang Yang

I download the firmware too. After I entered linux ,when I  type  "iwconfig", it shows:

wlan0     IEEE 802.11abgn  ESSID:off/any 

          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=15 dBm  

          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off

          Encryption key:off

          Power Management:off

sit0      no wireless extensions.

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

Does it work well ? How can I test it, could you tell me ?