Please help me install intel 5300 agn

Hi,

I tried my best to read about how to install the driver for my intel 5300 agn on my lenovo ideapad y550p machine on BT4 but in vain.
When I do a ifconfig -a, it says there are no devices, so that means the OS has not recognized the card's existence.
I am using a USB bootup. I have the latest kernel 2.6.31...and the driver from intellinuxwireless.org.
Could someone please guide me as to how i need to install this particular driver on my system.

Many many thanks, I am sure this is going to help many users.

Thanks,
Raqeeb

What does dmesg tell you? firmware is often an issue with these evil centrino things.

the card is working fine now but I am unable to use the card for packet injection. Could someone please advise me what I am supposed to do apart from purchasing a new card

I have the same wifi card so I would like to know this as well. Thanks. Also if the OP could provide instructions on how to install the drivers that would be great.
Thanks.

Edit: Question: Why did the OP use the driver from http://intellinuxwireless.org/ and not from intel website directly? I saw that they have the driver for linux released on March 2010.

LOL - I've learned a quite few things when reading through the forums and such.

1. Wifi doesnt work on VMware unless it's a USB device.
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...irtualbox.html

2. Driver for 5300 agn is already installed. Look at /lib/firmware and there will be a driver so no need to download from Intel® Wireless WiFi Link drivers for Linux*
Both shows the same date.

I wasted about 2 days trying to get my BT in VM to show wlan0 and now I understand why it only detects eth0 because VM turns the wifi into a regular virtual network interfacce.