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Old 12-29-2014, 01:51 PM   #1
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How To Load iwlwifi Firmware?

iwlwifi driver has been enabled in the kernel, and the firmware placed in /lib/firmware

However, lspci -v shows that there is no driver loaded for my wifi card, an Intel Centrino 6205.

I've read every discussion on iwlwifi that I can find, to no avail. Please help if you can.

My LFS version is 7.6, Systemd.
 
Old 12-29-2014, 02:04 PM   #2
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Hi

Is there any info from ip link
 
Old 12-29-2014, 02:24 PM   #3
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Yes, here is the output from ip link

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1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: sit0: <NOARP> mtu 1480 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default
link/sit 0.0.0.0 brd 0.0.0.0
 
Old 12-29-2014, 03:21 PM   #4
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I take it the driver in the kernel is correct
Intel Wireless WiFi Next Gen AGN - Wireless-N/Advanced-N/Ultimate-N (iwlwifi)

and firmware is
iwlwifi-6050-5.ucode
 
Old 12-29-2014, 03:42 PM   #5
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The firmware is actually iwlwifi-6000g2a-6.ucode. Could that be the problem?
 
Old 12-29-2014, 03:50 PM   #6
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No my mistake mis read your post as 6250 so, no yours is correct, sorry
 
Old 12-29-2014, 03:57 PM   #7
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I should point out that the /lib/firmware directory didn't exist. I had to create it manually.

It seems to me that the kernel has no knowledge of /lib/firmware. According to the README that came with the driver, I need to set up UDEV somehow, but the book doesn't mention this.
 
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Old 12-29-2014, 04:41 PM   #9
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Yes, it's a 64 bit system.
 
Old 12-29-2014, 05:13 PM   #10
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I have found a bug report here
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...d/+bug/1398458

there is an interesting post here
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...458/comments/8

see if any of this helps

FYI
I have a systemd system that wont load a usb wifi but works fine on systeminit, exactly same kernel config. "just info"
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Old 12-30-2014, 01:16 AM   #11
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Hi,

Found these threads interesting: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1001638.html and http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1001638.html

I've given up and just compiled the driver into the kernel. I think you're right about this being a bug.
 
  


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