Re: Fedora Core 14 wireless issue with Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200)

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On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 08:15:02AM -0800, JD wrote:
> On 02/25/2011 03:49 AM, Sebastian wrote:
> > Thanks for the help.
> >
> > Just some background info and a query.
> > I downloaded and did a fresh install of 64-bit Fedora about a week ago 
> > from Fedora site..
> > Do I understand correctly that when I did the install, FC14 loaded the 
> > rev 09 firmware and that
> > this is already an old firmware?
> >
> > Now, do I understand correctly that I need to keep that old firmware
> > but roll back to an older Fedora Kernel to get the Intel Centrino 
> > Advanced-N 6200 to play nice
> > with Fedora?
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:34 PM, JD <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx 
> > <mailto:jd1008@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     By the way, I found the correct firmware for your card:
> >     *6000 Images – for Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 and Advanced-N 6200
> >     ***
> >     http://intellinuxwireless.org/iwlwifi/downloads/iwlwifi-6000-ucode-9.221.4.1.tgz
> >
> For the time being,
> 0. su - root
> 1. just unpack the tar file into an empty directory:
>      mkdir ~/tmpdir
> 2. Untar the file there:
>      tar -C ~/tmpdir -zxpf  {The path leading up 
> to}/iwlwifi-6000-ucode-9.221.4.1.tgz 
> <http://intellinuxwireless.org/iwlwifi/downloads/iwlwifi-6000-ucode-9.221.4.1.tgz>
> 3. cd iwlwifi-6000-ucode-9.221.4.1
> 4. cp iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode  /lib/firmware
> 5. sync; sleep 1; sync; sleep 1; reboot
> 
> During reboot, the driver will automatically look for iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode
> and load it into the wifi card.

Good grief...

Do this:

	rpm -q iwl6000-firmware

If you see this:

	iwl6000-firmware-9.221.4.1-1.fc14.noarch

Then rest assured that you have the proper firmware.

John
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