iwl4965 needs to be reloaded

[jccheng]

I have a Intel 4965 AGN wireless card in my laptop and use the iwl4965 module. Whenever I boot up my system, the iwl4965 needs to be reloaded in order for the card to work.

Output from dmesg shows that the module was loaded and the card detected:
iwl4965: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN driver for Linux, 1.1.17kds
iwl4965: Copyright(c) 2003-2007 Intel Corporation
iwl4965: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN

But iwconfig does not show wlan0:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.

If I "rmmod iwl4965" and then "modprobe iwl4965", then the card is detected and wlan0 can start.
Now the output from dmesg shows:
iwl4965: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN driver for Linux, 1.1.17kds
iwl4965: Copyright(c) 2003-2007 Intel Corporation
iwl4965: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN
iwl4965: Tunable channels: 11 802.11bg, 13 802.11a channels
phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-4965-rs'

I am running Fedora 7 with kernel-2.6.23.1-10.fc7 and iwl4965-firmware-4.44.1.18-2. Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[ppesci]

Check for other messages in /var/log/messages file. May be you can find some more descriptive messages about the failure.

HTH

[jccheng]

Thanks for the reply, but /var/log/messages doesn't give me anything more than dmesg.

[jccheng]

It looks like loading the module with the "disable_hw_scan=1" option solved the problem for now.

[ppesci]

Nice to see you solved the problem.