[arch-general] iwl5000 issues

[Nezmer at allurelinux.org]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 02:56:17PM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Rafa Grimán schrieb:
>> Hi :)
>>
>> Got a Lenovo T400 laptop with an Intel 5100 wireless card, lspci:
>>
>> 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN 
>> [Shiloh] Network Connection
>>
>> Which was working until I updated my system.
>>
>> Kernel version:
>>
>> # uname -a
>> Linux currotop 2.6.31-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Nov 10 19:01:40 CET 2009 
>> x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8600 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
>
> Giovanni recently repackaged the iwlwifi-5000-ucode (and other firmware) 
> packages as -any packages, but I just compared the iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode in 
> our package with the one from Intel's homepage and they match.
>
> Could you try if kernel26-2.6.32-1 and kernel26-firmware-2.6.32-1 from 
> testing solve the issue? If yes, we don't have to care about what happens 
> in 2.6.31, which will be gone from core in a week probably.
>

The firmware package always worked for me. I got this laptop on August
17th and installed Arch64 the same day. The kernel currently running is
2.6.31.5(built from vanilla source with bfs). So the problem is not that
generic with "2.6.31".

$ lspci|grep -i wireless
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5100