Please help me install intel 5300 agn

[i_raqz]

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

[RageLtMan]

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

[i_raqz]

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

[gambitz]

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.

[gambitz]

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.