Comment 13 for bug 496640

I tried to change iwlwifi-5000 microcode. I downloaded the latest version from the web and changed it for the one I had in /lib/firmware after backing it up.

 /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode

Rebooted but still didn't work :( This is what lsmod showed me:

$ lsmod | grep iwl
iwlagn 124896 0
iwlcore 133600 1 iwlagn
mac80211 210040 2 iwlagn,iwlcore
led_class 5256 2 iwlcore,sdhci
cfg80211 109144 3 iwlagn,iwlcore,mac80211

It shows the same thing when I started with wireless off and then I switch it on (which I insist, it makes it work). Everything here points to iwlagn.

Anyways, looking online, I found many people on the phorums having issues with Intel wireless cards. Many different ones, so it looks like the drivers are crap.