On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 16:18 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 01:32:32PM -0700, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 12:24 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 07:49:47AM -0700, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > > > > > > The upshot of it is that if I install using the Live CD or DVD (32 or 64 > > > > bit), the Intel WiFi card works with no issues out of the box. If, OTOH, > > > > installing from the install DVD (32 or 64 bit), the WiFi card never > > > > works correctly. > > > > > > What is the output of `rpm -q iwl4965-firwmare`? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > John > > > > I haven't been able to do more installs from the install DVD, but output > > from the x86-64 Live DVD (the one that's working) is: > > > > /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-4965-1.ucode > > /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-4965.ucode > > /usr/share/doc/iwl4965-firmware-4.44.1.18 > > /usr/share/doc/iwl4965-firmware-4.44.1.18/LICENSE > > /usr/share/doc/iwl4965-firmware-4.44.1.18/README > > Hmmm...well, I was hoping to see the output from the situation that > is _not_ working... :-) ...Yeah - I kinda figured that. :) I just had to get this working because I'm headed out on a trip early tomorrow morning and needed my laptop in shape for it. If it helps, I did check to see that the firmware was installed in /lib/firmware in the non-working situation. The two .ucode files were definitely there. I remember that because I went searching to find them and compare them to what was available on Intel's site and they matched. I didn't check the documentation files though, and I also didn't check the contents of the firmware RPM file. But I'm pretty sure they were the same. Perhaps someone who installed from DVD can confirm that. I can also tell you that, in the non-working situation, dmesg output was saying that the drivers thought the card's hardware switch was off (meaning that the card was physically turned off). In reality the card was definitely turned on. That might provide some additional clues. Cheers, Chris -- ==================================================== In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. --Yogi Berra
