Asus F3S Series Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN Problem After Some Updates

[caglar.dursun]

Hi ...

Something happened my wireless connection and I still dont know why ?When the first instalation happened everything looked fine and working but after some kernel and library updates my wireless connection and wlan0 interface lost.

I have been searching a solution during 3 days & there is no working solution for me.Here is the some information about my system.

uname -r
2.6.24-21-generic

dmesg | grep wl
[ 54.359830] iwl4965: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN driver for Linux, 1.2.0
[ 54.359833] iwl4965: Copyright(c) 2003-2007 Intel Corporation
[ 54.445608] iwl4965: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN
[ 54.824759] iwl4965: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch

lsmod
Module Size Used by
ipv6 267780 10
af_packet 23812 2
rfcomm 41744 2
l2cap 25728 13 rfcomm
bluetooth 61156 4 rfcomm,l2cap
ppdev 10372 0
acpi_cpufreq 10796 2
cpufreq_userspace 5284 0
cpufreq_powersave 2688 0
cpufreq_conservative 8712 0
cpufreq_stats 7104 0
cpufreq_ondemand 9740 1
freq_table 5536 3 acpi_cpufreq,cpufreq_stats,cpufreq_ondemand
dock 11280 0
sbs 15112 0
container 5632 0
sbshc 7680 1 sbs
iptable_filter 3840 0
ip_tables 14820 1 iptable_filter
x_tables 16132 1 ip_tables
sbp2 24072 0
joydev 13120 0
parport_pc 36260 0
lp 12324 0
parport 37832 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
snd_hda_intel 344856 3
snd_pcm_oss 42144 0
uvcvideo 58116 0
snd_mixer_oss 17920 1 snd_pcm_oss
compat_ioctl32 2304 1 uvcvideo
videodev 29440 1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat 15492 2 uvcvideo,videodev
iwl4965 105844 0
snd_pcm 78596 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
atl1 36364 0
v4l2_common 18304 2 uvcvideo,videodev
psmouse 40336 0
nvidia 7825536 36
iwlwifi_mac80211 218980 1 iwl4965
snd_page_alloc 11400 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_hwdep 10500 1 snd_hda_intel
mii 6400 1 atl1
serio_raw 7940 0
video 19856 0
cfg80211 15112 1 iwlwifi_mac80211
output 4736 1 video
i2c_core 24832 1 nvidia
snd_seq_dummy 4868 0
snd_seq_oss 35584 0
sdhci 19076 0
snd_seq_midi 9376 0
battery 14212 0
mmc_core 51460 1 sdhci
ac 6916 0
snd_rawmidi 25760 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 8320 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 54224 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_mid i_event
snd_timer 24836 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 9612 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi ,snd_seq
snd 56996 17 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,sn d_hwdep,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_ seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
asus_laptop 19064 0
button 9232 0
intel_agp 25492 0
agpgart 34760 2 nvidia,intel_agp
led_class 6020 1 asus_laptop
pcspkr 4224 0
evdev 13056 6
shpchp 34452 0
pci_hotplug 30880 1 shpchp
soundcore 8800 1 snd
iTCO_wdt 13092 0
iTCO_vendor_support 4868 1 iTCO_wdt
ext3 136840 2
jbd 48404 1 ext3
mbcache 9600 1 ext3
sr_mod 17956 0
cdrom 37408 1 sr_mod
pata_acpi 8320 0
ata_generic 8324 0
sg 36880 0
sd_mod 30720 6
usb_storage 73664 1
libusual 19108 1 usb_storage
ahci 28548 3
ata_piix 19588 0
ohci1394 33584 0
ieee1394 93752 2 sbp2,ohci1394
libata 159344 4 pata_acpi,ata_generic,ahci,ata_piix
scsi_mod 151436 6 sbp2,sr_mod,sg,sd_mod,usb_storage,libata
ehci_hcd 37900 0
uhci_hcd 27024 0
usbcore 146412 6 uvcvideo,usb_storage,libusual,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
thermal 16796 0
processor 37384 4 acpi_cpufreq,thermal
fan 5636 0
fbcon 42912 0
tileblit 3456 1 fbcon
font 9472 1 fbcon
bitblit 6784 1 fbcon
softcursor 3072 1 bitblit
fuse 50708 5



Do you have any idea what's going on ?

[caglar.dursun]

Here we go ... I download new drivers from http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download and still doesn't existing wlan0 or any wireless connection.

this is the result of ifconfig :

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1f:c6:38:99:25
inet addr:192.168.1.35 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21f:c6ff:fe38:9925/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:82 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:15795 (15.4 KB) TX bytes:11381 (11.1 KB)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:2778 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2778 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:138900 (135.6 KB) TX bytes:138900 (135.6 KB)

I'm gonna lose my mind.

[caglar.dursun]

Here i am & after two weeks,i still cannot use the wireless anymore.I hate linux.

[eargonz]

Hi there, I'm having the same problem. I installed Ubuntu on a Gateway M-153XL, and at first everything was OK, but suddenly the wireless conection fell. I thougt that it wasn't big deal, but then I realised I counldn't get it to work again. I'm getting crazy trying to fix it!!

The card is the same one as yours, please if you find a way to fix it, tell me, I'll do the same for you.

Thanks

[caglar.dursun]

Yeap,

I fixed it two weeks ago.I upgrade to ubuntu 8.10.Now it's fine.When I checked the module list again iwl4965 disapeared and iwlang comes.I guess the problem was iwl4965 module.

[caglar.dursun]

If you still having the same problem your wireless card.May be I can help this time.

[rickn]

I have this problem with an Asus F3S laptop on 9.04 Jaunty. No hardware kill switch on this model. It worked under 8.10. Man, this is killing me.

uname -a

Linux chirpy 2.6.28-16-generic #55-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 20 19:48:24 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

dmesg | grep iwlagn

[ 10.002365] iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, 1.3.27ks
[ 10.002368] iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2008 Intel Corporation
[ 10.002507] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 10.002515] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 10.002557] iwlagn: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN REV=0x4
[ 10.039574] iwlagn: Tunable channels: 11 802.11bg, 13 802.11a channels
[ 10.039631] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: irq 2295 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 18.406863] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode
[ 18.466136] iwlagn: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch

[rickn]

Sigh. It's really hard to admit this, but I just found the RF kill switch on the front edge. Nuff said.