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alberto

Member

Registered: 2019-03-27

Posts: 2

Intel WiFi 5300 AGN Not Detected

Hi,

I've tried both 32 and 64 bit latest Slitaz 5.0 rolling releases (24 March) on USB with fat and ext2. My Intel WiFi card 5300 AGN is not detected at all. I've done some searching and found that I need to install iwlwifi-5000-firmware.

- I did this first from Package Manager but wifi did not work.

- Then I tried all the steps in easy method wifi configuration and installed tazpkg get-install get-wifi-firmware and got confirmation: Package "get-wifi-firmware" (2.0) is installed.

- I tried /etc/init.d/network.sh restart but result was [Failed]

No networks are shown when I run Wi-Fi configuration in preferences. It seems as if the wifi card is not detected at all. The wifi LED light is on but when I try lspci | grep -i network I get no output at all. Also when I run tazhw detect-pci --get-firmware I get this output which doesn't show the wifi card:

Detected PCI devices Kernel modules

===================================

* Builtin module : ahci

* Builtin module : ata_generic

> Module in use  : e1000e

* Builtin module : ehci_pci

> Module in use  : i915

> Module in use  : intel_agp

* Builtin module : pcieport

* Builtin module : sdhci_pci

* Builtin module : serial

> Module in use  : snd_hda_intel

* Builtin module : uhci_hcd

> Module in use  : yenta_socket

==================================

when I run lsmod, I can see the module (the output is very long so I deleted everything and only showing wifi)

Module                  Size  Used by

iwlwifi                63944  0

By the way, wifi works fine under Windows and other Linux distros

The attached file has the output of all other commands (lspci | grep -i network, modprobe your_module, dmesg | tail, lsmod, nano /etc/network.conf, ifconfig eth1 up, ifconfig -a, iwconfig, /etc/init.d/network.sh restart, ifconfig -a)

I'm an advanced Windows user but a new comer to Linux and I have spent a lot of time trying to figure this out on my own as part of the learning process, but I've failed and I'm so frustrated. Please please help, thanks

mojo

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,173

Re: Intel WiFi 5300 AGN Not Detected

Welcome alberto!

tux@slitaz:~$ tazpkg search firmware-iwlwifi

Search result for "firmware-iwlwifi"

================================================================================

Installed packages

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

================================================================================

0 installed packages found for "firmware-iwlwifi"

Available packages

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firmware-iwlwifi-100    20171030          non-free

firmware-iwlwifi-1000   20171030          non-free

firmware-iwlwifi-105    20171030          non-free

firmware-iwlwifi-135    20171030          non-free

firmware-iwlwifi-2000   20171030          non-free

firmware-iwlwifi-2030   20171030          non-free

firmware-iwlwifi-3160   20171030          non-free

firmware-iwlwifi-3945   20171030          non-free

firmware-iwlwifi-4965   20171030          non-free

firmware-iwlwifi-5000   20171030          non-free

firmware-iwlwifi-5150   20171030          non-free

firmware-iwlwifi-6000   20171030          non-free

firmware-iwlwifi-6050   20171030          non-free

firmware-iwlwifi-7260   20171030          non-free

firmware-iwlwifi-7265   20171030          non-free

================================================================================

15 available packages found for "firmware-iwlwifi"

[c]tazpkg -gi firmware-iwlwifi-5000[/c]

Reboot after installing firmware and check if kernel registered the wifi adapter.

[c]ls /sys/class/net[/c]

If not open 2 terminals as root

Terminal 1:

[c]tail -f /var/log/messages[/c]

Terminal 2:

[c]modprobe -r iwlwifi[/c]

[c]modprobe iwlwifi[/c]

Check for errors in terminal 1 in response to unload/load of iwlwifi driver.

alberto

Member

Registered: 2019-03-27

Posts: 2

Re: Intel WiFi 5300 AGN Not Detected

Hi mojo,

Thank you so much, you've put me out of my misery. You sure got mojo

It worked, but unfortunately the installed firmware was lost after reboot because I'm running Slitaz live from USB even though it is ext2 formatted. So I did some experimenting and these are the steps I did in case someone else needs them:

1. Download firmware-iwlwifi-5000 package from Slitaz mirror and and save it on USB

2. Install it after Slitaz starts

3. Open terminal as root:

modprobe -r iwlwifi

modprobe iwlwifi

and voila! Let there be wifi

I hope iwlwifi firmware will be included in the next rolling releases as there are many computers using them. But in general I believe the wifi still needs some fine-tuning. Some points that I have noticed:

1. WiFi connection from Preference menu > Wi-Fi configuration didn't work and I had to go to Package Manager and select network tab and do the configuration.

2. I tried to connect a USB wifi RTL8188EUS with the same method here, but it didn't start even though the rtlwifi firmware is already included in the kernel.

As a newcomer to Linux, I'm really amazed by all these distros, Slitaz in particular. I just can't comprehend how on earth you can put so much power in such a little space. A whole OS with many applications including a reasonably well functioning web browser (I'm using it right now to post this) in just around 50 MB! My graphics driver alone under Windows is bigger than that!

All the respect and appreciation to the developers. You guys are awesome!