To (Original mailing list):
[email protected], (delivered)
[email protected], (bounced back from here).
[email protected] (delivered)
Hello Developer Friends:
I'm writing because I'm having problems with the WiFi and Bluetooth interfaces
provided by the "Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6230AGN" card in my laptop. I am
running Fedora 14 Linux / 64 Bit, with the latest 2.6 kernel provided by their
repositories (2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64).
Please CORRECT me if I am wrong, but as I understand it, the drivers for this
(and similar devices) are supposed to be these:
root# locate iwlwifi
/lib/modules/2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwlagn.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwlcore.ko
But these kernel loadable modules do not seem to work. Let me show you why...
An "lspci -k" doesn't show any of these kernel modules bound to my
WiFi/Bluetooth
card hardware (which, again, is a Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6230AGN device).
See here....
root# lspci -k
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: JMC250 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
(rev 05)
Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer Device 7100
Kernel driver in use: jme <--- GOOD for the Ethernet device
Kernel modules: jme <--- GOOD
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0e31 (rev a1)
Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer Device 7100
Kernel driver in use: nvidia <--- GOOD for the video
controller.
Kernel modules: nvidia, nouveau, nvidiafb <--- GOOD
04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6230 (rev
34)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6230 AGN
Kernel driver in use: <---- missing / not bound. NO GOOD
Kernel modules: <---- missing / not bound. NO GOOD
This is true even after I manually do a "root# modeprobe iwlagn" (etc.)
So it looks like (1) either these driver are not working for this device and
needs to be fixed or *enhanced* to support this card; or (2) this is not the
driver for this Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6230AGNdevice, and one needs to
be written. So neither Wireless nor Bluetooth work because devices cannot be
accessed.
Many CLEVO made laptops will ship with this card (if they have not
already), and will need a working Linux device driver for it.
Btw... Here is my post about this missing driver to the Fedora and other
forums...
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1442632#post1442632
Can someone help me out with this please? Thank you
Thank you,
Noel Milton Vega
212-699-2660
One more time... hopefully this one doesn't wrap around
on anyone on this list (apologies for the repeat send).
Hello Ozan:
You know that's actually a great point. You just reminded
me of something! I have noticed that, while the laptop
Bluetooth indicator light does toggle On-and-Off each
time I press Fn-12; the WiFi laptop indicator light does
*not*. It has never turned on (*ever*), no matter how many
times I press Fn-11 (the key combination to toggle WiFi
On-and-Off). I just assumed it was the driver issue I
was having (and it may still be).
Here are your rfkill outputs...
Executed when Bluetooth light was on - RX/TX enabled; WiFi light is off.)
root@p170hm# rfkill list
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
Note: Don't let the above 2nd bluetooth interface
beguile you. This is a tiny bluetooth dongle I
temporarily attached to a USB port because this
same N-6320 card also provides the laptop's bluetooth
capability. But being connected to a USB port, Fn-12
will not affect it showing up in the output of rfkill
(see later below - it will remain in the output).
1: hci1: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
(Executed when Bluetooth light was off -- RX/TX disabled; WiFi light is off)
root@# rfkill list
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
In either case, I see no reference to a WiFi device.
Hope that helps some more.
Regards & Thanks,
Noel
----- Original Message ----
> From: Ozan Çağlayan <[email protected]>
> To: Noel Milton Vega <[email protected]>
> Cc: Julian Calaby <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> Sent: Thu, February 10, 2011 1:21:38 AM
> Subject: Re: Need Linux driver (preferably 64 bit) for "Intel Corporation
>Centrino Advanced-N 6230 (rev 34)" WiFI & Bluetooth card ...
>
> Perşembe 10 Şubat 2011 günü (saat 07:25:12) Noel Milton Vega şunları
yazmıştı:
> > Hi Julian,
> >
> > Thank you for the extended reply. It's appreciated. Your output wish is
> > my command. Here they are (and then some):
>
> Can you run
>
> rfkill list
>
> and send the output? Are there any WLAN toggles on your laptop (a hard switch
>or Fn + Fx combination)?
> If yes try playing with them.
>
> ---
> Ozan Çağlayan
> TUBITAK/UEKAE - Pardus Linux
> http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng
>
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).
#####################################################
#####################################################
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
#####################################################
#####################################################
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)
#####################################################
#####################################################
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)
####################################################
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
Thank you, and do let me know your thoughts given the above additional
information,
and if anything else would be helpful.
Best Regards,
Noel
PS: My only side comment is that suggestion (3) was not applicable. My email
question was peppered with "hello friends", "correct me if I'm wrongs", "and
please and thank yous". Fair enough that some key output I didn't realize would
be
necessary was omitted (my bad, as I'm a compute infrastructure architect not a
kernel module author), but I did my best to get this dialog started well. =:)
Thanks.
----- Original Message ----
> From: Julian Calaby <[email protected]>
> To: Noel Milton Vega <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Sent: Wed, February 9, 2011 11:15:11 PM
> 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 14:31, Noel Milton Vega
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm writing because I'm having problems with the WiFi and Bluetooth
>interfaces
> > provided by the "Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6230AGN" card in my laptop. I am
> > running Fedora 14 Linux / 64 Bit, with the latest 2.6 kernel provided by
>their
> > repositories (2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64).
>
> [snip]
>
> > So it looks like (1) either these driver are not working for this device
and
> > needs to be fixed or *enhanced* to support this card; or (2) this is not
the
> > driver for this Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6230AGNdevice, and one needs to
> > be written. So neither Wireless nor Bluetooth work because devices cannot
>be
> > accessed.
>
> Nothing needs to be done, these devices are already supported.
>
> See the linked line in:
>http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-6000.c;h=af505bcd7ae0977f1095fc02ce8b9553f70dd86d;hb=HEAD#l601
>1
>
> They have been supported since the 6th of May last year.
>
>http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1808972f16adba592ceb10a47dee42ef8ee39cee
>e
>
> This support hit mainline in 2.6.36.
>
> May I suggest that you upgrade your kernel or, failing that, use
> compat-wireless. You should also make sure that you have the firmware
> installed, it's in the iwl6000g2b-firmware package. (See:
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/iwl6000g2b-firmware)
>
> That said, given that F14 ships the firmware for this device, I'm
> guessing it's supported somehow. You *did* install the firmware,
> right?
>
> Next time you submit a bug report like this, make sure that you:
> 1. Include the dmesg output for an attempt to load the driver. In your
> case the output of "dmesg | grep iwl" would be a good start.
> Completely unloading the driver and then re-loading it while recording
> the output would be better.
> 2. Include lspci-n output as this means that we can match up your card
> with the list supported in the driver - given the number of PCI ids
> out there, we cannot match a text description like you provided to an
> actual card as there's likely to be several different versions out
> there with the same name, but differing IDs. If yours has a slightly
> different ID than the officially supported ones, then it won't work.
> 3. Don't treat us like idiots.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> --
> Julian Calaby
>
> Email: [email protected]
> Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/
> .Plan: http://sites.google.com/site/juliancalaby/
>
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 14:31, Noel Milton Vega
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm writing because I'm having problems with the WiFi and Bluetooth interfaces
> provided by the "Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6230AGN" card in my laptop. I am
> running Fedora 14 Linux / 64 Bit, with the latest 2.6 kernel provided by their
> repositories (2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64).
[snip]
> So it looks like (1) either these driver are not working for this device and
> needs to be fixed or *enhanced* to support this card; or (2) this is not the
> driver for this Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6230AGNdevice, and one needs to
> be written. So neither Wireless nor Bluetooth work because devices cannot be
> accessed.
Nothing needs to be done, these devices are already supported.
See the linked line in:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-6000.c;h=af505bcd7ae0977f1095fc02ce8b9553f70dd86d;hb=HEAD#l601
They have been supported since the 6th of May last year.
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1808972f16adba592ceb10a47dee42ef8ee39cee
This support hit mainline in 2.6.36.
May I suggest that you upgrade your kernel or, failing that, use
compat-wireless. You should also make sure that you have the firmware
installed, it's in the iwl6000g2b-firmware package. (See:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/iwl6000g2b-firmware)
That said, given that F14 ships the firmware for this device, I'm
guessing it's supported somehow. You *did* install the firmware,
right?
Next time you submit a bug report like this, make sure that you:
1. Include the dmesg output for an attempt to load the driver. In your
case the output of "dmesg | grep iwl" would be a good start.
Completely unloading the driver and then re-loading it while recording
the output would be better.
2. Include lspci-n output as this means that we can match up your card
with the list supported in the driver - given the number of PCI ids
out there, we cannot match a text description like you provided to an
actual card as there's likely to be several different versions out
there with the same name, but differing IDs. If yours has a slightly
different ID than the officially supported ones, then it won't work.
3. Don't treat us like idiots.
Hope that helps,
--
Julian Calaby
Email: [email protected]
Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/
.Plan: http://sites.google.com/site/juliancalaby/
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 16:25, Noel Milton Vega
<[email protected]> 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.
> PS: My only side comment is that suggestion (3) was not applicable. My email
> question was peppered with "hello friends", "correct me if I'm wrongs", "and
> please and thank yous". Fair enough that some key output I didn't realize would
> be
> necessary was omitted (my bad, as I'm a compute infrastructure architect not a
> kernel module author), but I did my best to get this dialog started well. =:)
My issue with your email wasn't the text or the content, it was with
the tone of it. Your email implied that your issue was something that
we needed to be stepped through and that it was our fault. I
understand that having hardware on your brand new laptop not work is
an annoyance, especially when it's the built-in wireless - I have
bought several different pieces of hardware only to discover that
support under Linux simply doesn't exist, or requires a lot of work -
but your problem could have been stated in less words with a calmer
tone of voice.
As for the details you provided, they were more than sufficient for
the first stage of a request for help.
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,
--
Julian Calaby
Email: [email protected]
Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/
.Plan: http://sites.google.com/site/juliancalaby/
Perşembe 10 Şubat 2011 günü (saat 07:25:12) Noel Milton Vega şunları yazmıştı:
> Hi Julian,
>
> Thank you for the extended reply. It's appreciated. Your output wish is
> my command. Here they are (and then some):
Can you run
rfkill list
and send the output? Are there any WLAN toggles on your laptop (a hard switch or Fn + Fx combination)?
If yes try playing with them.
---
Ozan Çağlayan
TUBITAK/UEKAE - Pardus Linux
http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng