Hello Community,

I am using OpenWrt on my laptop, it is installed on a USB flash-drive.
It is an Medion akoya MD 97110intel wifi link 510 with intel wifi link 5100 card.

All is working very good but I have no wlan interface, when I use "ifconfig" I get an br-lan, eth0 and lo interface. No wlan0. The same by "iwconfig".
So I started to google and get a hint for a "iwlwifi" driver and firmware. I put the firmware file ("iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode") into the folder /lib/firmware, but it won't work. So I think about it and get the conclusion the driver is still missing, with google I founded a package called "backports" wich includes the driver. To use this package I need "make" so I installed "make" on OpenWRT and try it, but I get 127 error's so I cannot install the driver.

Can someone help me to get my wifi card work, so that I can use OpenWrt on my laptop?

Thanks for your help, graphik_

I have the same issue - if you figure it out please let me know.
I asked about Intel 5100 @ https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php … 7&p=13 using a x86 laptop.
I used to have a Broadcom card in it and hoped changing the wireless card would fix the issue. I should've gone for the slower Atheros card it seems, rather than Intel.

You simply need to install kmod-iwlagn package. Keep in mind that your particular card does not support acces point mode.

damn. lol. Ta for reply.

These cards are on auction for NZD 30 which is cheap enough, which should I try for a full set of functionality?
RALINK RT3592BC8?
Atheros AR5B225 802.11bgn & Bluetooth 4.0 HS Combo?

I've installed iwlagn using the nnopenwrt image, as I couldn't get the default OpenWrt x86 image to boot up. Wireless still doesn't work after rebooting.

I have an Acer AOD270 netbook, datasheet/specifications @ http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/mod … .SGA0D.066
When it had the broadcom card I installed bcm43 but no luck.
It was called 02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)

Now I have the Intel one also.

Also, can buy these cards at reasonable prices
Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1030 11230BNHMW WiFi and Bluetooth 3.0 combo card
Intel Ultimate-N 6300 633ANHMW

Define does not work. It is normal to have no wlan0 after reboot, you need to spawn one with iw first. Attach the dmesg with kmod-iwlagn installed here.

iw list and iwconfig doesn't list the device. Not sure if I need to run another command?
Using the web GUI to "Create Interface" the only devices listed are eth0, ip6tnl0 & tunl0.

syslog and dmesg
http://pastebin.com/khEbe7fV

lsmod
http://pastebin.com/EgCsriS8

Maybe the kernel of your firmware image was built without CONFIG_PCI_MSI=y ?

k, makes sense then, but the OpenWrt default x86 build doesn't boot. Not sure how to get it going, I installed it to an internal SATA and external USB using dd if=image of=/dev/sdX but neither wanted to boot past grub. Would really like to turn my brick laptop to something useful.
Any ideas which wireless card I should buy to get the full set of possible features?

Ta for taking the time to help me - really helpful of you.

I just noticed lspci does give me output though.

lspci just scans the bus, it also reports something if the drivers are defunct.

Thank you for the answer I will try it at the weekend.

@jow: Is there no way to use my card as acess point, so that I need another one?