Hello again all:
It seems that the bluetooth capability of this card now works.
I don't know whether this had to do with my installing a missing
firmware package that Julian pointed out
(i.e. iwl6000g2b-firmware-17.168.5.1-1.fc14.noarch), or maybe
that the bluetooth radio was off when I was attempting to pair
(I do remember turning it on though). In any case, I inserted an
"rfkill unblock all" statement in /etc/rc.local to automate
that - at least at a O/S level (thank you Ozan for alerting
me to that command).
Anyway, I'd like to post an accurate update to the question I posed on
the forums (FedoraForum & Linuxforums) for this issue (I will
not divulge email addresses btw).
Given the dialogue we had last night, would you guys/gals
characterize the update shown next as accurate:
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Hi Friends....
UPDATE:
In working with the kernel.org linux-wireless developers, the conclusion
from one developer was that, though generally speaking the
"Centrino Advanced-N 6230 AGN" card is supported by the "iwlagn" kernel
module, it seems that the stock kernel module provided in the
Fedora 14 kernel package (circa 2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64), does not
support the this card.
In other words, though code in the main kernel.org git repository does
show support for the card (via iwlagn kernel module), Fedora 14's
rendition/distribution of that does not.
"lspci(8) -v" did show the hardware (Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6230
(rev 34)), the necessary driver and firmware packages were installed, and the
laptop RF toggle switches are set to enable wireless communications.
Yet manually performing "modprobe(8) iwlagn" does not produce a wlan0
interface in "ifconfig(8) -a" output; and although "dmesg(8)" shows the
module being loaded, it does not show it detecting the card.
The two work arounds were suggested (I haven't tried either):
(1) Update the kernel. Since I have the latest one provided
by Fedora for Fedora 14, this implies a manual compile
of a kernel.org kernel. Note that if Fedora is not aware of
this issue, it's not likely that the next kernel update
will remedy this.
(2) Using a compat-wireless technique described here,
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download
Command output during my debugging session with the developers is
shown below for completeness, and in case the Fedora folks are
monitoring.
Regards,
Noel
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Thanks again to all participants on this email list.
Noel
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From: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Noel Milton Vega <nmvega@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thu, February 10, 2011 1:11:36 AM
Subject: Re: Need Linux driver (preferably 64 bit) for "Intel Corporation
Centrino Advanced-N 6230 (rev 34)" WiFI & Bluetooth card ...
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 16:25, Noel Milton Vega
<nmvega@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Julian,
>
> Thank you for the extended reply. It's appreciated. Your output wish is
> my command. Here they are (and then some):
>
> #####################################################
> nmvega@p170hm$ sudo rpm -qa | grep iwl
> #####################################################
> iwl1000-firmware-128.50.3.1-2.fc13.noarch
> iwl6050-firmware-41.28.5.1-2.fc14.noarch
> iwl5150-firmware-8.24.2.2-1.fc13.noarch
> python-iwlib-0.1-3.fc14.x86_64
> iwl4965-firmware-228.61.2.24-2.fc12.noarch
> iwl6000-firmware-9.221.4.1-1.fc14.noarch
> iwl3945-firmware-15.32.2.9-4.fc13.noarch
> iwl5000-firmware-8.24.2.12-3.fc13.noarch
> iwl6000g2b-firmware-17.168.5.1-1.fc14.noarch <--- Indeed that was missing,
>and
> I just installed it (then rebooted).
> #####################################################
Ok, if the driver supports your card then it should now work.
> #####################################################
> nmvega@p170hm$ sudo modprobe -r iwlagn
> nmvega@p170hm$ lsmod | grep iwl (the Unix NULL output was provided here)
> nmvega@-170hm$ sudo modeprobe iwlagn
> nmvega@p170hm$ sudo dmesg | tail -8
> #####################################################
> [ 576.353525] (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain,
> max_eirp)
> [ 576.353528] (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000
mBm)
> [ 576.353530] (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000
mBm)
> [ 576.353532] (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000
>mBm)
> [ 576.353534] (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000
mBm)
> [ 576.353536] (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000
mBm)
> [ 576.384224] iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux,
> in-tree:d
> [ 576.384227] iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2010 Intel Corporation
> #####################################################
Not really enough information, but yeah, the first 6 lines are the
tail end of initialising the wireless subsystem, and the last two are
printed when the driver loads. Given that nothing mentions the driver
actually detecting the card, then I'm guessing it isn't supported by
this version of the driver.
> #####################################################
> nmvega@p170hm$ ifconfig -a
> #####################################################
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:F5:B4:5F:2E
> inet addr:192.168.0.20 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> inet6 addr: fe80::290:f5ff:feb4:5f2e/64 Scope:Link
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:440 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:49 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:33496 (32.7 KiB) TX bytes:6320 (6.1 KiB)
> Interrupt:48
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
> RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:240 (240.0 b) TX bytes:240 (240.0 b)
> #####################################################
And as it hasn't appeared here, that's definitely the case.
> #####################################################
> nmvega@p170hm$ sudo lspci -n
> #####################################################
> 00:00.0 0600: 8086:0104 (rev 09)
> 00:01.0 0604: 8086:0101 (rev 09)
> 00:16.0 0780: 8086:1c3a (rev 04)
> 00:1a.0 0c03: 8086:1c2d (rev 04)
> 00:1b.0 0403: 8086:1c20 (rev 04)
> 00:1c.0 0604: 8086:1c10 (rev b4)
> 00:1c.1 0604: 8086:1c12 (rev b4)
> 00:1c.2 0604: 8086:1c14 (rev b4)
> 00:1c.3 0604: 8086:1c16 (rev b4)
> 00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:1c26 (rev 04)
> 00:1f.0 0601: 8086:1c4b (rev 04)
> 00:1f.2 0106: 8086:1c03 (rev 04)
> 00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:1c22 (rev 04)
> 01:00.0 0300: 10de:0e31 (rev a1)
> 01:00.1 0403: 10de:0beb (rev a1)
> 02:00.0 0c03: 1033:0194 (rev 03)
> 03:00.0 0200: 197b:0250 (rev 05)
> 03:00.1 0880: 197b:2392 (rev 90)
> 03:00.2 0805: 197b:2391 (rev 90)
> 03:00.3 0880: 197b:2393 (rev 90)
> 04:00.0 0280: 8086:0091 (rev 34) <--- this one.
> 05:00.0 0c00: 197b:2380 (rev 30)
> ####################################################
Ok, with this I can determine that the card wasn't added with the
initial batch of cards I linked you to, but it appears to be fully
supported as it was added later.
> With all that provided, the only thing I didn't investigate pursuant to your
> below
> email was the "compat-wireless". I will do so via the URL:
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download
This is probably your best option as it appears that the stock driver
in the F14 2.6.35 kernel doesn't support your card.
I hope that installing compat-wireless goes as smoothly for you as it
does for me, and that after installing it your card works properly.
Thanks,
--
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Email: julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx
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