Intel 4965 AGN WiFi Driver

[diatondas]

Hello

I am new to this community. I've been reading these forums a lot lately and I appreciated the level of support and the politeness of the community.

I've recently got a Dell 6400 and after reviewing the pre-installed new Vista, I decided I've had enough with MS and want to gradually move as much of my computing as I can to linux.
I've deleted everything, re-installed Vista and left a sizable separate partition to install linux as I will gradually migrate software, data, and habits to the new environment.

Before installing I want to make sure I have drivers for critical hardware components.

The laptop came with the new Intel WiFi 4965AGN adapter
So far I haven't been able to find a driver for it.

Does anyone know if there is a driver available for it?
Alternatively, would older drivers work with it, even with reduced functionality?

Many thanks for taking the time to read this

[dinokpir]

I am also a newbie - am interested if you try using ndiwrapper, would it work? and if so please post which dell driver you use (R#####.exe). I dont believe the intel 2200 linux driver could wotk on it. Good luck! Hopefully the support for this card comes about sometime soon.

Yoshi

[borntoride]

I'm exactly in the same case as you.

I have installed BackTrack Linux and not able to make work the wireless card (4965). Did you find a way ?

Thanks !

Jonathan

[CrzySdrs]

I too have recently gotten the 4965AGN Intel Wireless card in a my laptop (Gateway NX570X). The card shows up in lspci as:
Network controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 4229 (rev 61)
I have tried ndiswrapper with the 11.1.0.86 XP drivers, only to have a kernel panic upon module insertion. I haven't found any kernel options or other ways to do it and the ipw2200 doesn't work (I wasn't expecting it to). I am using Gentoo but any solutions found for Ubuntu would probably work.

[kickabear]

http://www.intel.com/support/wireles.../CS-025330.htm

The Linux drivers for this card should be out by the end of June, hopefully sooner.

[diatondas]

Thanks everyone for the replies !
Unfortunatelly, I haven't managed to make it work either.
I guess I'll have to wait for Intel to release the drivers in a couple of months...

[InfoSec812]

I seem to have had more luck than others here. I can insert the ndiswrapper module after installing the driver, and the mouse and applications still work fine. I can navigate around in KDE etc... Unfortunately, I cannot use my keyboard!!! Weird!! I am on a Toshiba Satellite A205-S4629:

T5500 CPU
2GB RAM
Ubuntu Feisty Fawn

[rye_]

hello,

I too have the intel 4965 card and though there does not seem to be a linux compatible driver (yet)
it works perfectly well on my dell 640m laptop if ndiswrapper is used;

1) install ndiswrapper (I did it from source but I think it may be in apt)
2) look for the windows drivers on the intel website (V11.1.0.0_XP_DRIVERS.ZIP)
I think the one your looking for is netw4x32.INF

3)in the directory of the extracted driver file in the terminal type:
ndiswrapper -i NETw4x32.INF

4)then;
ndiswrapper -m

5)check its there with;
ndiswrapper -l
6) I think the driver may need forwarding with (though step 3 may do this);
modprobe ndiswrapper;


And that's it.

Some observations;

make sure that wireless is turned off when you exit/ enter ubuntu (fn + f2). If it remains on (wireless) then ubuntu can fail to boot or shutdown.

once in ubuntu, and having switched wireless the light should flash periodically (perhaps once every 5 seconds, this is normal behaiour).

after wireless has been turned on go to the network manager (nm-applet) and deselect then reselect enable networking to restart it (right-click). it should no become aware of the available wireless connections.

if your network manager shows no connections, check if any are available with the command;
sudo iwlist scan


That's it. Sorry if its over-simplified, its just a quick guide for noobs.

Ryan

[InfoSec812]

Wow!!!! That's awesome. On my Toshiba Satellite A205, turning off the physical switch and then loading ndiswrapper, it works!!! Thanks for the tip!!!

[renerey]

i had the same problem with my new intel 4965 wifi that came with my dell laptop. i just got ndiswrapper to work. my only thing is don't get the ndiswrapper from the repositories. i read somewhere that there's a bug with it and it's not updated. go get the ndiswrapper from the ndiswrapper website. i believe it's the ndiswrapper-1.43.