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darry1966

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Iwl4965 and HPdv6000

The module for my wireless card IWL4965 does not load consistently in Devuan Beowulf is there a fix???

PedroReina

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Re: Iwl4965 and HPdv6000

does not load consistently

Could you support this with some log messages? Or describing the inconsistent behaviour?

darry1966

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Re: Iwl4965 and HPdv6000

Hi Pedro,
the behaviour this - the machine loads to desktop and no connections with wicd show.  The firmware for iw4965 is not loading every boot.  Have to reboot to get it to - then I can connect.  Is there an answer to this problem??

fsmithred

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Re: Iwl4965 and HPdv6000

Try grep iwlwifi /var/log/syslog and see if there are any error messages.

And please do the following for me. lsmod | wc -l and compare the numbers you get when the wireless does and does not connect after a reboot. Let me know if they are different. Thanks. You could also do lsmod |grep iwlwifi to see if the wireless module is loaded.

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Iwl4965 and HPdv6000

You could also do lsmod |grep iwlwifi to see if the wireless module is loaded.

I think the card uses the legacy driver so

grep iwl4965 /proc/modules

And if it isn't loaded use

# modprobe iwl4965

If that fixes things then add the module name to /etc/modules (or to a file under /etc/modules-load.d/) to force load it every boot.

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fsmithred

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Re: Iwl4965 and HPdv6000

I think the card uses the legacy driver so

Maybe. I just did 'apt-cache search IWL4965' and it showed firmware-iwlwifi.

grep for just 'iwl' and they can all show up.

I'd like to rule out eudev as the source of the problem before anything else is changed. If so, there's a fix in beowulf-proposed-updates. https://bugs.devuan.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=483

darry1966

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Re: Iwl4965 and HPdv6000

Thanks guys I will try these ideas out.  The problem is very random.  Thanks all.

PedroReina

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Re: Iwl4965 and HPdv6000

The problem is very random.

In my experience, random behaviour is very often caused by faulty hardware.

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Iwl4965 and HPdv6000

^ +1

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F_Sauce

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Re: Iwl4965 and HPdv6000

https://wiki.debian.org/iwlegacy

I believe Head_on_a_Stick and fsmithred might be on the track.

Cheers,
Olav

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