Re: [CentOS] 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 (rev 34)

2013-03-09 Thread Ned Slider
On 09/03/13 19:48, Ned Slider wrote:
> On 09/03/13 09:24, Eero Volotinen wrote:
>> Hi List,
>>
>> Any idea how to get wireless lan : 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel
>> Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 (rev 34)
>> working on centos 5?
>>
>> Eero



>
> Further, elrepo does not have updated drivers for el5.
>

One option that is available to you on el5 is the long-term kernel 
(currently kernel-lt-3.0.68) from elrepo:

http://elrepo.org/linux/kernel/el5

which should support the device.


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Re: [CentOS] 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 (rev 34)

2013-03-09 Thread Ned Slider
On 09/03/13 09:24, Eero Volotinen wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> Any idea how to get wireless lan : 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel
> Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 (rev 34)
> working on centos 5?
>
> Eero

I don't believe it's supported by the el5 kernel but you'll need to 
provide the Vendor:Device ID pairing to be sure.

According to the Intel documentation, that chipset requires the 
iwlwifi-6000g2a firmware and interrogating the driver doesn't list it:

$ strings 
/lib/modules/2.6.18-348.el5/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwlagn.ko | 
grep ucode | grep firmware

firmware=iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode
firmware=iwlwifi-5150-2.ucode
firmware=iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode
firmware=iwlwifi-6050-4.ucode
firmware=iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode

Hence why I doubt it's supported.

Further, elrepo does not have updated drivers for el5.

That device does however appear to be supported out of the box on el6 so 
your best bet would be to upgrade:

$ strings 
/lib/modules/2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwlwifi.ko
 
| grep ucode | grep firmware

firmware=iwlwifi-5150-2.ucode
firmware=iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode
firmware=iwlwifi-6000g2b-6.ucode
firmware=iwlwifi-6000g2a-5.ucode  <=== Bingo!
firmware=iwlwifi-6050-5.ucode
firmware=iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode
firmware=iwlwifi-100-5.ucode
firmware=iwlwifi-1000-5.ucode
firmware=iwlwifi-135-6.ucode
firmware=iwlwifi-105-6.ucode
firmware=iwlwifi-2030-6.ucode
firmware=iwlwifi-2000-6.ucode


Hope that helps


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Re: [CentOS] 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 (rev 34)

2013-03-09 Thread Earl Ramirez
On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 11:24 +0200, Eero Volotinen wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> Any idea how to get wireless lan : 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel
> Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 (rev 34)
> working on centos 5?
> 
> Eero
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Eero,

Have you tried the drives from ElRepo?


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[CentOS] 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 (rev 34)

2013-03-09 Thread Eero Volotinen
Hi List,

Any idea how to get wireless lan : 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel
Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 (rev 34)
working on centos 5?

Eero
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