Problem with wlan in fedora 14

[saveavatar]

It dosnt show up in /sbin/ifconfig -a
lspci show that it detects it in some way
Network controller: Intel Corporation Wifi Link 5100

But in dmesg i see this message:

iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: request for firmware file 'iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode' failed.
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: request for firmware file 'iwlwifi-5000-4.ucode' failed.
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: request for firmware file 'iwlwifi-5000-3.ucode' failed.
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: request for firmware file 'iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode' failed.
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: request for firmware file 'iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode' failed.
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: no suitable firmware found!
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A disabled

Any ideas?

[bbfuller]

Hello saveavatar

Probably the iwl5000-firmware doesn't get installed by default with F14.

Try:

yum install iwl5000-firmware

if you have an internet connection on the machine. If not, post back and we can talk about installing it manually.

[saveavatar]

Hmm:
sudo yum install iwl5000-firmware
Loaded plugins: langpacks, post-transaction-actions, presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
Package iwl5000-firmware-8.83.5.1_1-1.fc14.noarch already installed and latest version
Nothing to do

[bbfuller]

Hello saveavatar

I see that someone on the forum reckons that they needed the 'iwl5150-firmware package as well to make their card work.

Might be worth trying. Though on this F15 laptop - which doesn't have an intel wireless card - both iwl5000 and 5150 are installed by default.

If that is so on your machine then I'm mystified why it doesn't find at least some of the firmware.

You might try looking in the /lib/firmware folder and seeing what is there. This machine has:

iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode
iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode
iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode

by default and if yours does then I'm surprised by that output from dmesg.