This is probably temporary and from what I read the 2.6.26 kernels already have an iwl5000 module.Ĭapabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wirelessĬonfiguration: broadcast=yes driver=iwl4965 latency=0 module=iwl4965 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn This will add support for the 5100 card to the iwl4965 kernel module. Note, as of this writing (8/24/08), the most recent compat wireless package available was dated 8/6/08, but it does contain support for the 5100 card.Įdit the config.mk file and add the following lines at the end to turn on support for the 5100 card and also for the rfkill switch:ĭownload the firmware iwlwifi-5000-ucode-5.4.A.11.tar.gz ()

Untar somewhere (I'm choosing /usr/src/) and I'm doing everything as root from here on: Here are the steps I took, to get from a totally unrecognized device to a recognized device under stock Ubuntu 8.04 without a new kernel compilation:

I've gotten a bit further, but I seem to be stuck at the rfkill problem that's been described elsewhere. Kernels >= 2.6.24 can use the new support via the compat-wireless project (). I came across this post by Intel () in which they announce native support for the 5100 adapter. Anecdotal forum reports say that the 2.6.26 has out of the box support, but I would really like to use the Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 64 bit stock kernel.

The WiFi Link 51000 is giving me more headaches. The video adapter worked with using the proprietary 'nvidia' driver, which I had to set in the /etc/X11/nf.

I've just bought a new Compal JHL90 (resold as PowerPro P 12:15 by ), which comes with an Intel WiFi Link 5100AGN wireless adapter and an nvidia GeForce 9600M GT.

Intel wireless wifi link 5100 driver xp