[BALUG-Talk] kubuntu wireless problem

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Phillip Watts (phillip.watts at anvilcom.com):

> New HP laptop, intel bgn1000 wireless card.

I'll bet that's actually an Intel WiFi Link 1000 BGN.

I see on http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=667476 reference to
a binary firmware BLOB that must be supplied for that card.  Discussion:

  Ok just solved the problem. 

  It turns out I had to download the 1000bgn microcode from
  http://intellinuxwireless.org/?n=Downloads, extract it and copy it to
  /lib/firmware/.  Should've done more research and tried it before 
  posting. Oh well, if anyone else runs into similar issues, i hope 
  this post will help them.

When in doubt, by the way, see what happens when you run "dhclient" 
from the command line (as the root user, obviously).  If nothing else,
it might give you useful diagnostics.

Looks like the necessary driver is named iwlwifi (do "lsmod | grep
iwlwifi"), and it's been in the upstream kernel tree since 2.6.24.