hi,
i have a 'Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100' netcard, formly at start up the system wrote iwlwifi-5000-1, iwlwifi-5000-2, iwlwifi-5000-3, iwlwifi-5000-4, iwlwifi-5000-5 is missing. I downloaded them and put them in /lib/firmware, no the error message disappeared and i'm connected to my router, but i only have internet with ethernet, although signal strenght is 97%. What can be wrong? How can I solve this?
thank you!

You give your distribution as Slackware, without a statement of the version in use.

You should not have needed to download the firmware for your wifi device, as it would have been included in the default full install of Slackware. Did you do some sort of minimal install?

Were you formerly using the internet only via the ethernet interface using a configuration in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf?
If so, then revert to a clean /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...9/#post5236776

sorry, i have Debian version 8, i forget to set the distribution after reinstallation.

Rather than copying the firmware files manually, add the "contrib" & "non-free" components to your repository lines in /etc/apt/sources.list and then run:
https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList#Component

If it still doesn't work, post the output of:

thank you. I added theese 2 blocks to sources.list
#added
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ dists/Debian8.0 non-free
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ dists/Debian8.0 non-free

#added
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ dists/Debian8.0 contrib
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ dists/Debian8.0 contrib

can this be correct?


# ip r
169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000
192.168.0.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.2
192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.2

# dmesg|grep -i iwl
[ 2.018089] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: can't disable ASPM; OS doesn't have ASPM control
[ 2.018152] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: irq 48 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 2.037590] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode
[ 2.037749] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: loaded firmware version 8.83.5.1 build 33692 op_mode iwldvm
[ 2.082179] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG disabled
[ 2.082184] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUGFS disabled
[ 2.082186] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEVICE_TRACING disabled
[ 2.082189] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100 AGN, REV=0x54
[ 2.083614] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled
[ 2.168694] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-agn-rs'
[ 3.749243] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled
[ 3.752274] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Radio type=0x1-0x2-0x0
[ 3.851181] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled
[ 3.854263] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Radio type=0x1-0x2-0x0

# lspci -knn|grep -iA2 net
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8057 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller [11ab:4380] (rev 10)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device [104d:906b]
Kernel driver in use: sky2
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100 [8086:4232]
Subsystem: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100 AGN [8086:1301]
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi

Not at all -- see this example:
https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList#...8_.22Jessie.22

You should add "contrib" & "non-free" (without the quotation marks) immediately after the word "main" (on the same line).

Also, I don't think "Debian8.0" is a release version understood by APT -- replace that with "jessie" so that it looks like the example given above, ie:
Then use:
At any rate, your interface is already up & running (you should still install the firmware from the repositories so that is can be updated); I think the problem is that NetworkManager will always use the ethernet connection if the cable is connected.

Try either unplugging the cable or explicitly disabling the wired connection from the control panel.

thank you,
now it works better but only for some seconds, and if i ping for example linux.org or google.com, it will know the IP address of the server, but it says 'destination host unreachable'

From what I see here, you don't have a default gateway configured.

Also, I see that both the wireless and the ethernet have the same IP address '192.168.0.2'. This can cause you some issues if you are not using something like link aggregation or similar solutions. You should check that.

Try to set up the default gateway. For a temporary solution you could try this:

I assume that you gateway has '192.168.0.1' as the LAN IP address, change it if you need to.

If this works, you should change your networking configuration and add the default gateway.