[Hardy] WiFi Link 100 Series

[Frans Ketelaars]

On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:30:43 +0100, Nils Kassube wrote:

> NoOp wrote:
>> I've configured G60-530US laptop to multi-boot (all 64bit): - Win7
>> - 8.04.4 (hardy) - 2.24-27-generic kernel - 9.10 (karmic)
>> - 10.04 (lucid)
>> 
>> In all except 8.04 the wireless works w/o issues. In 8.04 it doesn't
>> even fine the wifi hardware. lshw from karmic shows:
>> 
>> *-network
> [...]
>>                 configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlagn
> 
> I think the "driver=iwlagn" is the problem. The command
> 
> modinfo iwlagn
> 
> shows that there is no such module (tried it with a Kubuntu i386 live
> DVD, which is the only leftover from Hardy here). You could try if it
> works with a kernel from a newer release.

On my updated Ubuntu 8.04 system the module _does_ exist but only for 
recent kernels, beginning with 2.6.24-23-generic ...

    -Frans