[Hardy] WiFi Link 100 Series

[NoOp]

On 03/21/2010 03:30 AM, 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.

I the iwlagn modules are present, but not loaded in either 2.6.24-26 or
-27 generic. Loading them and restarting hal & networks makes no
difference.

Thanks for pointing out that driver... looking through launchpad for
that pops up quite a few issues in hardy and intrepid. Looks like I'll
need to spend a full day or so getting it sorted out if I want wifi
working in 8.04. Not sure if it's worth it at this point w/10.4 working
& scheduled for release next month.

Given that it's a test install, I might go ahead & do an 8.04 to 10.04
"upgrade" on it to see the results. I can always reload 8.04 (only issue
is then I need to reload grub2 back from a karmic or lucid liveCD when I
do, but I'm getting good at that :-).