Does lsmod show the module being loaded and/or do your kernel logs/dmesg show the hardware device being recognized?
On 16 Nov 2011, at 1402, Yasha Karant wrote: > I have just attempted to migrate my laptop to SL 6.1 from EL 5.7, but IA-32 > (not X86-64) . Under 5.7, all of the hardware works, and the migration was > an attempt to (1) keep consistency amongst the environments/machines I > support and (2) to get more recent libraries than 5.7 provides to enable > applications that require these more recent libraries, applications that are > licensed for fee (in some cases) and that do not provide source. > > Under 6.1, the machine boots, but the Intel 5300 802.11 WNIC is not being > recognized. Initially, during the boot sequence, there was a complaint about > the firmware version. I manually installed (rpm -Uhv from a copy on a USB > flash drive that I copied to the internal hard drive of the machine) > iwl5000-firmware-8.83.5.1_1-1.el6_1.1.noarch.rpm > that stopped the firmware complaints (previously, v2, now v5) but the WNIC > still is not recognized (wlan0 not found and thus not being activated). > > I manually installed the rpm, not yum install, because I would have needed to > get the network activated for yum, and this would have required running a UTP > 802.3 cable to a 802.3 UTP port -- not physically convenient. > > Is this a kernel driver issue? Does one need to use a later kernel (e.g., as > provided by elrepo)? If so, without using yum but using a manual rpm, which > rpm kernel and/or system firmware files do I need to install to get a > bootable system? > > Any suggestions? > > Yasha Karant
