Problem installing wireless nic driver on 10.04LTS

[Yuping_Dong]

Hi Everyone,

I am a real newbie to Linux.
I was trying to follow the instructions to using Ubuntu 10.04LTS to measure the wireless signal channels.
It requires to use the author's modified kernel. So I followed every step.
Now I cannot turn on the wireless NIC.
Below are some commands I tried and the returned results.
I am very sorry for just typing code. I have the ubuntu server installed without a graphical interface, so I cannot do copy/paste from a terminal.

ifconfig wlan0 up
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device

lspci | grep -i wireless
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5300 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection

lshw -C network
network UNCLAIMED
description: Network Controller
product: PRO/Wireless 5300 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
version: 00
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:f9ffe000-f9ffffff
(and the ethernet nic)

lsmod | grep iwlwifi returns nothing.
I went in /lib/firmware, the drivers are there.
iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode
iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode are there.

Any comments will be highly appreciated!!

Yuping

[praseodym]

Hi,

does LAN work to update the driver? Please check:

sudo modprobe -v iwlwifi
dmesg | grep iwl