Intel Wireless Wifi Link 5100 on Hardy

[uniqueumang]

Umm is your wireless button touch sensitive

[lindylex]

uniqueumang, are you asking me this question? If so the answer is yes. I touch the button to turn the wifi on and off if I want to. I usually just leave it on.

[rocketsquash]

Hey guys!

Running Ubuntu Hardy on Acer 7730, and my wireless card wasnt working, followed this link, and in under 2 min it was working 100%, enjoy: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Do...irelessdrivers

Just find out what kernel ur using by typing in: uname -r and then download the appropriate tar from the website.

Cheers

[fallen04]

I am also having trouble getting wireless network working on my toshiba notebook. My notebook has the Intel 5100 driver. I can connect to a unsecured network, but I cant connect to my wpa secured wireless network. The wireless network works fine when I boot to Vista. I have pasted the results when running lshw -c network command in terminal mode.

*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:07:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 16
serial: 00:1e:68:a4:6f:dc
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=sky2 driverversion=1.22 firmware=N/A latency=0 module=sky2 multicast=yes
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: Wireless WiFi Link 5100
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:08:00.0
logical name: wmaster0
version: 00
serial: 00:16:ea:47:e0:60
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlagn ip=10.1.1.4 latency=0 module=iwlagn multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn
*-network DISABLED
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 1
logical name: pan0
serial: 3e:6b:f2:5c:06:45
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bridge driverversion=2.3 firmware=N/A multicast=yes

[hasinasi]

What kind of secured network is it?
There are several problems out there with WPA2 Enterprise networks.
You can see more info in this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/in...nt/+bug/272185
My problems were fixed by using the workaround suggested by Dan Bracey on Jan 9.
So in my case, it was not a driver issue. Let me know if you need more info. Good luck.

[Julolidine]

I followed the links on page 7, and still no luck. It was working yesterday, and when I woke up today, it was not working anymore.

lshw -c network shows the status of wlan0 as being DISABLED. Any clue how to get it going again?

[Adam Yee]

Thanks again to 'theburningor' for his instructions to fix the Intel Wireless Wifi Link 5100 driver issue (see here)! I lost my wireless connection abilities a few days ago even though the latest driver was installed on my Intrepid.

What was key for me was going to http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Do...heretodownload and downloading the latest compat-wireless package.

[Ubelha]

What should i do?
I'm a newbie with linux i have ubuntu 8.10.
Please help me.

[eliavv]

sorry but i didn't understand no.7
what should i write in Konsol?

[$$H3aT-MaCh1n3$$]

Hi there!!!

I'm using Backtrack 4 in Vmware Workstation. I'm able to do bridge connection that way i can access the web browser. I having trouble accessing and following the step "The Burningor" provide us. I already followed all the steps he gave us,but it doesn't seems to function. I actually erase and re-began everything again without being sucessful like 2 or 3 times already. I had been investigating for a while, and supposedly vmware workstation is not able to detect physical wifi cards meaning that as a consequence is not gonna be able to detect this one. I seriously would like for someone to confirm me this to be sure.

Here is some useful information:

Uname -a
Linux bt 2.6.30.9 #1 SMO Dec1 21:51:08 EST 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions

This is what i get so it seems it is incompatible but for shure with this installation of some drivers and by compiling them i will be successful of course if this is what i think.

ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0c:29:7f:bd:e4
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1118 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1093641 (1.0 MB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:19 Base address:0x2000

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)