Thinkpad T530i and Intel Wireless problem--simple fix?

[flomaster]

Ladies and Gentlemen, it appears that I lack the skillset to get my wireless to work. I have a T530i Laptop with an Intel 5100 PCIe wifi card. I've tried loading the driver, to no avail. An lspci does not list the hardware by name, and there appears to be no driver bound to the hardware. iwconfig shows no wireless capable devices. There is something I'm missing, and maybe someone here can help me out.

Here's some output:

[root@lent530i floridomd]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
ppp0 no wireless extensions. <----(currently using a Verizon card to surf)

[root@lent530i ~]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev c4)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev c4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation QM77 Express Chipset LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 7 Series Chipset Family 4-port SATA Controller [IDE mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 7 Series Chipset Family 2-port SATA Controller [IDE mode] (rev 04)
02:00.0 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd MMC/SD Host Controller (rev 07)

^As we can see, the wireless card is not being picked up, despite the fact that the driver is loaded:

[root@lent530i ~]$ rpm -qa | grep iwl
iwl5150-firmware-8.24.2.2-1.el6.noarch
python-iwlib-0.1-1.2.el6.i686
iwl5000-firmware-8.83.5.1_1-1.el6_1.1.noarch
iwl6000-firmware-9.221.4.1-1.el6.noarch
iwl6000g2a-firmware-17.168.5.3-1.el6.noarch
iwl6050-firmware-41.28.5.1-2.el6.noarch

^Firmware appears to be there, and then some.^


modprobe iwlwifi produces the following output in /var/log/messages:

2015-03-28T21:08:26.703161-04:00 lent530i kernel: cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
2015-03-28T21:08:26.817174-04:00 lent530i kernel: cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated:
2015-03-28T21:08:26.817263-04:00 lent530i kernel: cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
2015-03-28T21:08:26.817299-04:00 lent530i kernel: cfg80211: (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm)
2015-03-28T21:08:26.817305-04:00 lent530i kernel: cfg80211: (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm)
2015-03-28T21:08:26.817308-04:00 lent530i kernel: cfg80211: (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm)
2015-03-28T21:08:26.817311-04:00 lent530i kernel: cfg80211: (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 160000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm)
2015-03-28T21:08:26.817314-04:00 lent530i kernel: cfg80211: (5250000 KHz - 5330000 KHz @ 160000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm)
2015-03-28T21:08:26.817317-04:00 lent530i kernel: cfg80211: (5490000 KHz - 5730000 KHz @ 160000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm)
2015-03-28T21:08:26.817320-04:00 lent530i kernel: cfg80211: (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 80000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm)
2015-03-28T21:08:26.817323-04:00 lent530i kernel: cfg80211: (57240000 KHz - 63720000 KHz @ 2160000 KHz), (N/A, 0 mBm)
2015-03-28T21:08:28.146234-04:00 lent530i kernel: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi driver for Linux, in-tree:
2015-03-28T21:08:28.146252-04:00 lent530i kernel: Copyright(c) 2003-2013 Intel Corporation

rfkill produces no output, and dmesg appears to show that the radio is enabled:

thinkpad_acpi: radio switch found; radios are enabled

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[gerald_clark]

If lspci doesn't list it, it isn't working.
Are you sure it is not disabled in the BIOS?

[flomaster]

While I agree with you, I have no clue as to what is keeping the device from being detected. I put the card in another lenovo and immediately got an "unauthorized PCI device" error message in the BIOS, so i know that the card is able to communicate to at least one computer, at least enough to identify itself. What could be keeping it from communicating itself to the other system? Any ideas?