Comment 33 for bug 420678

Hello,
if anybody's interested, I had the same issue and got this to work on my 8530w (Intel 5300 chipset).
I compiled and installed compat-wireless-2009-12-11.tar.bz2 from http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/ and it now works flawlessly with my 5GHz N AP. However, unfortunately, the darn led starts blinking again so you have to create a file such as /etc/modprobe.d/iwlcore.conf containing "options iwlcore led_mode=1" to stop it. The other fix of creating an /etc/network/if-up.d script doesn't work because the /sys/class/leds/iwl-phy0 device (?) no longer exists.
lightning9