2. INSTALLATION



The iwlagn driver will look for the file iwlwifi-1000-5.ucode using the

kernel's firmware_class infrastructure. More information can be found under

Documentation/firmware_class in kernel source. In order to function

correctly, you need to have this support enabled in your kernel. When

you configure the kernel, you can find this option in the following

location:



Device Drivers ->

Generic Driver Options ->

Userspace firmware loading support





You can determine if your kernel currently has firmware loader support

by looking for the CONFIG_FW_LOADER definition on your kernel's

.config.



In addition to having the firmware_class support in your kernel, you

must also have a working udev and uevent infrastructure configured.

The steps for installing and configuring udev are very

distribution specific.



Once you have the firmware loader in place (or if you aren't sure and

you just want to try things to see if it works), you need to install

the microcode file into the appropriate location.



Where that appropriate location is depends (again) on your system

distribution. You can typically find this location by looking in the

udev scripts of your distro, the default is /lib/firmware.



Installation of the firmware is simply:



% cp iwlwifi-1000-5.ucode /lib/firmware



You can now load the driver (see the INSTALL and README.iwlwifi provided with

the iwlwifi package for information on building and using that driver.)