[Hardy] WiFi Link 100 Series

[Tom H]

>>> I've configured G60-530US laptop to multi-boot (all 64bit): - Win7
>>> - 8.04.4 (hardy) - 2.24-27-generic kernel - 9.10 (karmic)
>>> - 10.04 (lucid)
>>> In all except 8.04 the wireless works w/o issues. In 8.04 it doesn't
>>> even fine the wifi hardware. lshw from karmic shows:
>>>                 configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlagn

>> I think the "driver=iwlagn" is the problem. The command
>> modinfo iwlagn
>> shows that there is no such module (tried it with a Kubuntu i386 live
>> DVD, which is the only leftover from Hardy here). You could try if it
>> works with a kernel from a newer release.

> On my updated Ubuntu 8.04 system the module _does_ exist but only for
> recent kernels, beginning with 2.6.24-23-generic ...

2.6.24-27 is later that 2.6.24-23. (I assume that NoOp meant 2.6.24
when he wrote 2.24.)

You might need to enable the 9.04 or 9.10 backport repository to get
the right driver
or check
http://intellinuxwireless.org/?n=Downloads
WAGs! :)