[need help] intel Centrino Wireless N + WiMAX 6150

silvioq at gmail.com (Silvio Quadri) · Sun, 9 Dec 2012 10:56:24 -0300

Hi. I'm Silvio from Argentina.

I'm trying to make to work fine wifi in a Intel Classmate. The govern
has distributed 120.000 classmates, with WiMAX support, with dual boot
(Win 7 and Debian based distribution)

However, WiMAX works fine in Windows 7, but not in Linux. Kernel just
figure out the this wireless card for WiFi network only.

When I run "rfkill list", It shows:
0: cmpc_rfkill: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no

The command "lspci -nnk" returns
07:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Centrino
Wireless-N + WiMAX 6150 [8086:0885] (rev 5f)
    Subsystem: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N + WiMAX 6150 BGN
[8086:1305]
    Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
    Kernel modules: iwlwifi

Then, network controller is up, but only works in Wifi.

I tried with original kernel (2.6.38) and kernel & firmware squeeze
backport (3.2), with the same result.

The message http://lists.linuxwimax.org/pipermail/wimax/2012-January/001439.html
is for identical trouble, but he/she never returns.

I runned modprobe i2400m (after and before modprobe iwlwifi), and
nothing happened.
The Linux distribution is a customized Squeeze Debian clone.

Thanks a lot. I apologize for my poor English.

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Silvio Quadri