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Ghoraab
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 Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 2:56 pm Post subject: [solved] Intel Advanced-N 6205 not working for Kernel >=3 |
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Dear Gentooists.
I have stumbled upon a problem that is confusing me a bit and that I could not solve yet. I'm running out of ideas where to look next, so I'm asking for you assistance.
I'm running a Gentoo system on my X220 Lenovo machine. It has a Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 wireless card. It always worked fine using sys-firmware/iwl6005-ucode (current installed version 18.168.6.1) and it still does with kernel 3.12.38.
However, when I updated my kernel my Wifi stopped working. First, I thought I did some mistake during the update or there might be some bug. I did not have time to inquire so I just let time pass. Now with kernel 4.0.5 the problem is still there. I have copied the .config file from my 3.12.38 kernel and have compiled the 4.0.5 kernel with it, so the configuration should be the same.
Dmesg says:
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[ 0.466860] Intel(R) Wireless WiFi driver for Linux
[ 0.466861] Copyright(c) 2003- 2014 Intel Corporation
[ 0.466998] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: can't disable ASPM; OS doesn't have ASPM control
[ 0.467477] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-6000g2a-6.ucode failed with error -2
[ 0.467485] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-6000g2a-5.ucode failed with error -2
[ 0.467487] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: request for firmware file 'iwlwifi-6000g2a-5.ucode' failed.
[ 0.467487] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: no suitable firmware found!
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This message disappears if I boot with the 3.12.38 kernel.
I wondered why he would ask for the iwlwifi-6000, I always used the 6005 and it worked fine. Nevertheless in emerged iwl6000-ucode (version 9.221.4.1), but with no success.
ifconfig -a gives:
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enp0s25: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.178.23 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.178.255
inet6 fe80::f2de:f1ff:fe7a:511f prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether f0:de:f1:7a:51:1f txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 7781 bytes 6258989 (5.9 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 5945 bytes 954345 (931.9 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
device interrupt 20 memory 0xf2500000-f2520000
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 0 (Lokale Schleife)
RX packets 87 bytes 10205 (9.9 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 87 bytes 10205 (9.9 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
sit0: flags=128<NOARP> mtu 1480
sit txqueuelen 0 (IPv6-nach-IPv4)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
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when I boot with the 4.0.5 (or 3.18.7) kernel. (By the way: little network switch is turned on). So the card obviously is not there. iwconfig -a says that there are no devices.
Again, booting the 3.12.38 kernel I get the additional entry
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wlp3s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.178.20 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.178.255
inet6 fe80::a288:b4ff:fece:db44 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether a0:88:b4:ce:db:44 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 83 bytes 13851 (13.5 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 11 bytes 1434 (1.4 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
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I don't want to get stuck with the 3.12.38 kernel and there has to be some detail that I am missing. Could somebody please help me out?
Best regards
Ghoraab
Edits: Added some information, messed up the post and corrected it again...
Last edited by Ghoraab on Fri Jul 10, 2015 6:31 am; edited 1 time in total |
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mir3x
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Maybe try to do:
make firmware_install
in kernel directory
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Ghoraab
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| Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 3:22 pm Post subject: |
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Hello mir3x and charles17
and thanks for your quick response.
Unfortunately
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make firmware_install
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did not help.
@charles:
Good point, I did not pay attention to this. But everything seems to be all right there. Intel® Centrino® Advanced-N 6205 with kernel version 3.2+ should use iwlwifi-6000g2a-ucode-18.168.6.1 which is exactly the version that I have installed. And it should be the right driver for both of the kernels.
By the way:
iwlwifi-6000g2a-6.ucode is located in /lib64/firmware/
Regards
Ghoraab
Edit: Huh? Charles' post is gone? Did I do something wrong? |
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charles17
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charles17
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| Ghoraab wrote: | | Edit: Huh? Charles' post is gone? Did I do something wrong? |
No. I did (trying the grexit button)
I seem to recall there were rumors in the past about iwlwifi with kernel version 4.0 |
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Ghoraab
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| Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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| charles17 wrote: | | Ghoraab wrote: | | Edit: Huh? Charles' post is gone? Did I do something wrong? |
No. I did (trying the grexit button)
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 Ah! I'm relieved.
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I seem to recall there were rumors in the past about iwlwifi with kernel version 4.0 |
It's not just 4.0.5. It's also 3.18.xx, so it's not a pure 4.0 issue and maybe even before that. Wait, let me check...
I still have a 3.14.31 installed. No problem there. |
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charles17
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And if it solves the problem, please put a note in the Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 line in the wiki article. |
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Ghoraab
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| Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 6:28 am Post subject: |
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Worked for my 4.0.5 kernel.
There I have added
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Device Drivers ---> Generic Driver Options ---> External firmware blobs to build into the kernel binary (iwlwifi-6000g2a-6.ucode)
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Device Drivers ---> Generic Driver Options ---> Firmware blobs root directory (/lib64/firmware)
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like specified in the thread that you pointed me to, mir3x.
I will mark this topic as solved.
Best regards
Ghoraab |
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