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Intel WiFi Link 5100, 5300, 5350 devices

This page describes how to enable support for WiFi devices based on Intel 5000-series chipsets on Debian systems.

iwlagn is a module for Intel 4965, 5100BG/ABG/ABN, 5300AGN and 5350AGN wireless LAN chipsets. This driver is included in the mainline Linux kernel since 2.6.27. It is present in Debian kernel images since 2.6.28.1

Non-free firmware is required, which can be provided by the firmware-iwlwifi package since version 0.15.2 Firmware must be installed prior to device operation.

Installation

Lenny

  1. Add the Debian Backports repository to /etc/apt/sources.list, also including the "non-free" component. For example:

    # Backported packages for Debian Lenny
    deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free
  2. Update the list of available packages and install the lenny-backports/debian-backports-keyring package:

    # aptitude update
    # aptitude -t lenny-backports install debian-backports-keyring

    As your system does not yet have the GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository installed, you will be asked to confirm installation of a package from an untrusted repository. Enter Yes when prompted.

  3. Install a 2.6.30 (or later) kernel image appropriate for your system, along with the lenny-backports/firmware-iwlwifi and wireless-tools packages. For example:

    # aptitude update
    # aptitude -t lenny-backports install linux-image-2.6.30-bpo.1-$(uname -r | sed 's,.*-,,g') firmware-iwlwifi wireless-tools
  4. Restart your system and boot with the newly installed kernel.
  5. The necessary kernel module should be automatically loaded. If necessary, it can be manually loaded via:

    $ su
    # modprobe iwlagn
  6. Verify your device has an available interface:

    # iwconfig
  7. Raise the interface to activate the radio, for example:

    # ifconfig wlan0 up
  8. Configure your wireless interface as appropriate.

Squeeze

  1. Add a "non-free" component to /etc/apt/sources.list, for example:

    # Debian Squeeze
    deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian squeeze main contrib non-free
  2. Update the list of available packages and install the firmware-iwlwifi and wireless-tools packages:

    # aptitude update
    # aptitude install firmware-iwlwifi wireless-tools
  3. The necessary kernel module should be automatically loaded. If necessary, it can be manually loaded via:

    # modprobe iwlagn
  4. Verify your device has an available interface:

    # iwconfig
  5. Raise the interface to activate the radio, for example:

    # ifconfig wlan0 up
  6. Configure your wireless interface as appropriate.

Supported Devices

The page HowToIdentifyADevice/PCI explains how to identify a PCI device.

The following list is based on the alias fields of modinfo iwlagn in Debian 2.6.30 kernel images.

See Also


CategoryHardware | CategoryWireless

  1. Resolves Debian bug 501157. (1)

  2. Resolves Debian bug 497717. (2)

iwlagn (last edited 2009-08-18 17:42:00 by GeoffSimmons)