[ltp] iwl4965, Hardy x86_64, and frustration (long)

[Peter Frühberger]

Am Donnerstag, den 08.05.2008, 08:51 -0700 schrieb John Jason Jordan:
> On Thu, 8 May 2008 4:31:34 -0700
> <bhaskins@chartermi.net> dijo:
> 
> > > If someone has the 4965agn working without a problem in 64-but Hardy, I
> > > would appreciate any insights you can offer.
> 
> > Have you tried this:
> > iwconfig will give you the name of your wireless.
> > Then try dhclient (name of wireless).
> > If it is already running it will give you a pid so do
> > "kill (that pid)" and then dhclient (name of wireless).
> > This works for me if I lose my DHCP.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion. It sounds good. I have saved it in my
> "Cheatsheet" file - a plain text file that I can open with anything and
> where I save instructions that I know sometime I will need. Next time I
> am at the university and lose my DHCP lease I will surely try it.
> 
> It is now morning and my head is working better. It occurs to me that
> there might be a later driver than what I am using. However, I don't
> know how to find out what driver I have or what the latest version is.
> If I do "lsmod" it just gives me "iwl4965." Is there a way to get lsmod
> to tell me more details, or a different command that will tell me what
> version I have?

modinfo iwl4965 

you can build wireless compat (mentioned somewhere here on the list)

Peter