WEP on Intel Wireless 4965?

Coltblues · #1 28th August 2008, 05:50 AM

I can only get my laptop to connect to a unsecured network. I'm running fedora 9 on an asus g1s laptop. Any help will be greatly appreciated. i can also run an iwlist wlan0 scan and see all the networks around me but i just cant connect to any encrypted network. I've already thought about using ndiswrapper but they do not have xp drivers for this laptop

[root@localhost ~]# rpm -e iwl4965-firmware
error: package iwl4965-firmware is not installed

Could that have anything to do with it? I'm kinda new to linux

bbfuller · #2 28th August 2008, 10:48 AM

Hello Coltblues

Some odd results there.

If you have a 4965 card then it shouldn't connect at all if you haven't got the firmware installed.

However, the command you have used 'rpm -e' is the command to erase the 4965 package so wireless shouldn't work in any event.

I suggest that you use Yum to put the firmware package back in place.

Code:

yum install iwl4965-firmware

should do it as long as you have a wired internet connection.

Then run the connamd:

Code:

/sbin/lspci

to verify that you have a 4965 card and post back if it still doesn't work and we'll think again.

techman2006 · #3 28th August 2008, 11:18 AM

Also please try to configure your network using DHCP as sometime network manager is not able to connect if you provide a static ip to your card.