On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, Phong Nguyen wrote:
Does lsmod show the module being loaded and/or do your kernel logs/dmesg =
show the hardware device being recognized?=20
lspci can show if the hardware is 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.
How did you do the "migrate"?
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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).
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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.
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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?
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Any suggestions?
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Yasha Karant
-Connie Sieh
