Intel 4965 Wireless on Gentoo

I recently configured the wireless on my X61 Tablet for Gentoo. I have a Intel 4965 AGN wireless card.

lspci | grep -i wireless
03:00.0 Network Controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN Network Connection (rev 61)

Relevant kernel options (from gentoo-sources 2.6.28-r5 kernel)

Device Drivers  --->
  [*] Network device support  --->
    Wireless LAN  --->
      {*} Intel Wireless Wifi Core
      <M> Intel Wireless WiFi Next Gen AGN
        [*]   Intel Wireless WiFi 4965AGN

Install wpa_supplicant and wireless-tools

emerge -av wpa_supplicant wireless-tools

Create symlink so Gentoo will initialize the wlan0 at startup

cd /etc/init.d
ln -s net.lo net.wlan0

/etc/conf.d/net

modules=( "wpa_supplicant" )
iwconfig_wlan0="mode managed"
wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-Dwext"

/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=wheel
 
network={
  ssid="MySSID"
  scan_ssid=1
  key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
  psk="password"
  priority=5
}

I was getting SCICSIFFLAG File Not Found errors when trying to bring up my wlan0 interface. A look at the dmesg log revealed that the iwlagn module was trying to access iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode, so I emerged iwl4965-ucode to fix that.

emerge -av iwl4965-ucode

Reinitialize the interface to see if everything worked

/etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart

Intel 4965 Wireless on Gentoo

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