WiFi card Intel 4965AGN (on a Lenovo T61p) not detected

[tie]

Anyone had any success getting a 4965AGN card to work on PCBSD?

I see a driver is commited to FreeBSD 8 (http://www.clearchain.com/wiki/Iwn), and Intel have some Linux drivers for it. Haven't had any luck with it on PCBSD though, not even with the ndiswrapper.

[Dazhelpwiz]

I have the same problem..

[TerryP]

maybe it will get a backport to 7.1 someday.

[Dazhelpwiz]

Heres hoping. Id be happy with anything to make the card work.

[TerryP]

If your card has a working slot for a pc card or usb ports, you can always buy a card that is known to work.

[Dazhelpwiz]

true, Im using an ethernet adapter at the moment. so its not that much of an immediate issue. However making the hardware work itself would be good.

[tie]

I was in the middle of writing a detailed guide when the system froze... damn.

Here is the short version abut getting Intel 4965agn running on PCBSD 7.0.2:
- get the FreeBSD source if you don't have it
- download the drivers from http://sites.google.com/site/bsdgooch/files
- apply the diff file in /usr and copy the src/ folder from the archive to /usr as well
- compile the iwn and iwnfw modules
- copy the 2 .ko files (iwnfw.ko and if_iwn.ko) to /boot/kernel
- add the following line to /boot/loader.conf:

legal.intel_iwn.license_ack=1
if_iwn_load="YES"
iwnfw_load="YES"

Reboot your system. If everything is fine, you should see the iwn0 interface. You can configure it with the network configuration "wizard" in KDE.

[Libertino]

hallo tie,

could you be so nice and expand your how-to to a step by step dummi-safe explanation?
Concluding from the many clicks of this thread, I assume that there are many people interested in getting their intel network card 4965agn working under pc-bsc .

cheers

Libertino

[lfever]

hallo tie,

could you be so nice and expand your how-to to a step by step dummi-safe explanation?
Concluding from the many clicks of this thread, I assume that there are many people interested in getting their intel network card 4965agn working under pc-bsc .

cheers

Libertino

Yes, this would be greatly appreciated as I have the same problem. :cry: