Getting Intel 4965 wireless working in F15 ?

Ranjan Maitra maitra at iastate.edu
Tue Sep 6 16:35:15 UTC 2011


I have this wireless for over four years now, and this works just fine,
from off-the-shelf. Have you tried using the LiveCD to check whether
the wireless is picked up?

Ranjan

On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 10:06:52 -0500 linux guy <linuxguy123 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Any quick tips on how one would get wireless working on a laptop with the Intel 4965 device on it in F15 ?
> 
> $ yum list installed \*wl\*
> Loaded plugins: changelog, downloadonly, kmdl, refresh-packagekit
> Installed Packages
> broadcom-wl.noarch                                 5.60.48.36-1.fc13                     @rpmfusion-nonfree                         
> iwl3945-firmware.noarch                            15.32.2.9-5.fc15                      @anaconda-InstallationRepo-201105131946.i686
> iwl4965-firmware.noarch                            228.61.2.24-3.fc15                    @anaconda-InstallationRepo-201105131946.i686
> kmod-wl.i686                                       5.60.48.36-2.fc15.7                   @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates                 
> kmod-wl-2.6.40.3-0.fc15.i686.i686                  5.60.48.36-2.fc15.7                   @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates                 
> ppl-pwl.i686                                       0.11.2-1.fc15                         @anaconda-InstallationRepo-201105131946.i686
> python-iwlib.i686                                  0.1-6.fc15                            @anaconda-InstallationRepo-201105131946.i686
> 
> $ lsmod | grep wl
> iwlagn                229826  0
> iwlcore               126002  1 iwlagn
> mac80211              201962  2 iwlagn,iwlcore
> cfg80211              116073  3 iwlagn,iwlcore,mac80211
> 
> $ yum list \*4965\*
> Installed Packages
> iwl4965-firmware.noarch                        228.61.2.24-3.fc15
> 
> Thanks !      


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