F15B: Wireless Unavailable

"Steven F. LeBrun" <steven@xxxxxxxxxxx> · Sun, 22 May 2011 22:01:01 -0400



    I recently bought a new Dell XPS 15R laptop and installed Fedora 15
    Beta on it.  I have been having trouble getting the wireless adapter
    to work.

    
    After downloading and installing the latest Intel Wireless WiFi
    driver/firmware iwlwifi-6000g2b from www.intellinuxwireless.org, the
    wireless adapter worked until the system was rebooted a second
    time.  Now all I get is that wireless is unavailable though the mac
    address of the adapter is listed in the network configuration
    dialog.

    
    My system is running Fedora 15 beta, 64-bit, with an Intel Centrino
    Advanced-N 6230 wireless adapter.

    
    As far as I can tell, the iwlagn driver is loading successfully as
    shown by a section of dmesg shown below.

    
    Section of Dmesg:

    [   15.431294] iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link
        AGN driver for Linux, in-tree:d

      [   15.431297] iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2010 Intel Corporation

      [   15.431414] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level,
      low) -> IRQ 17

      [   15.431470] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64

      [   15.431598] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel(R)
        Centrino(R) Advanced-N 6230 AGN, REV=0xB0

      [   15.448529] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: device EEPROM VER=0x716,
      CALIB=0x6

      [   15.448532] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Device SKU: 0Xb

      [   15.448534] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Valid Tx ant: 0X3, Valid Rx
      ant: 0X3

      [   15.448565] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg,
      24 802.11a channels

      [   15.448927] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: irq 49 for MSI/MSI-X

      . . .

      [   15.833594] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: loaded firmware version
        17.168.5.2 build 35905

      
    This appears to be a common problem but I have not seen any
    solutions for it posted anywhere.  Any suggestions, comments,
    feedback will be welcome.

    
    -- 

      
          Steven F. LeBrun

        
          Dell XPS 15R
          
            64 bit
            8 GB
            Intell Core i5-2410M CPU
            Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6230
            Intel Sandybridge Mobile
          
          Fedora 15 Beta
          
            Gnome 3
          
        
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