I installed Centos 6 on Lenovo x200.
There are problems with wireless driver: connection bounces every 1 min or so.
I have iwl5000-firmware-8.24.2.12-3.el6.noarch installed. It uses
iwlwifi-5000-2.
I downloaded iwlwifi-5000-ucode-8.83.5.1 to obtain iwlwifi-5000-5.
It was copied to /lib/firmware/.
How can I really install iwlwifi-5000-5?
Thanks!
iwl5000-firmware & iwlwifi-5000-5
Re: iwl5000-firmware & iwlwifi-5000-5
Manual installation of a file that overwrites the distro one is not recommended on an rpm-based distro like CentOS.
iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode is included in an updated iwl5000-firmware package that will appear in CentOS 6.1. I don't have an ETA for that. If you would like to try that out now, you can get a copy from Scientific Linux:
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.1/i386/updates/fastbugs/iwl5000-firmware-8.83.5.1_1-1.el6_1.1.noarch.rpm
iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode is included in an updated iwl5000-firmware package that will appear in CentOS 6.1. I don't have an ETA for that. If you would like to try that out now, you can get a copy from Scientific Linux:
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.1/i386/updates/fastbugs/iwl5000-firmware-8.83.5.1_1-1.el6_1.1.noarch.rpm
Re: iwl5000-firmware & iwlwifi-5000-5
I did install iwl5000-firmware-8.83.5.1_1-1.el6_1.1.noarch.rpm for scientificlinux.
[root@localhost]# yum list iwl5000-firmware
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: centos.fastbull.org
* extras: centos.fastbull.org
* rpmforge: ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de
* updates: centos.fastbull.org
Installed Packages
iwl5000-firmware.noarch 8.24.2.12-3.el6 @base
iwl5000-firmware.noarch 8.83.5.1_1-1.el6_1.1 installed
Wireless still does not work.
Do I need to reinstall modules that depend on iwl5000-fw? Any more hints?
[root@localhost]# yum list iwl5000-firmware
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: centos.fastbull.org
* extras: centos.fastbull.org
* rpmforge: ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de
* updates: centos.fastbull.org
Installed Packages
iwl5000-firmware.noarch 8.24.2.12-3.el6 @base
iwl5000-firmware.noarch 8.83.5.1_1-1.el6_1.1 installed
Wireless still does not work.
Do I need to reinstall modules that depend on iwl5000-fw? Any more hints?
iwl5000-firmware & iwlwifi-5000-5
[quote]
iztok wrote:
I installed Centos 6 on Lenovo x200.
There are problems with wireless driver: connection bounces every 1 min or so.
I have iwl5000-firmware-8.24.2.12-3.el6.noarch installed. It uses
iwlwifi-5000-2.
I downloaded iwlwifi-5000-ucode-8.83.5.1 to obtain iwlwifi-5000-5.
It was copied to /lib/firmware/.
How can I really install iwlwifi-5000-5?
Thanks![/quote]
The firmware version (revision) MUST match the kernel driver being used. The driver in the 6.0 kernels uses iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode and the driver in the 6.1 kernels uses iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode.
It doesn't hurt to have both files present in /lib/firmware/ - the kernel driver will simply load the firmware file it's looking for.
Try updating to the latest 6.1 kernel and corresponding firmware package and see if that fixes your issues. If it doesn't, you should file a bug report upstream with Red Hat.
iztok wrote:
I installed Centos 6 on Lenovo x200.
There are problems with wireless driver: connection bounces every 1 min or so.
I have iwl5000-firmware-8.24.2.12-3.el6.noarch installed. It uses
iwlwifi-5000-2.
I downloaded iwlwifi-5000-ucode-8.83.5.1 to obtain iwlwifi-5000-5.
It was copied to /lib/firmware/.
How can I really install iwlwifi-5000-5?
Thanks![/quote]
The firmware version (revision) MUST match the kernel driver being used. The driver in the 6.0 kernels uses iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode and the driver in the 6.1 kernels uses iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode.
It doesn't hurt to have both files present in /lib/firmware/ - the kernel driver will simply load the firmware file it's looking for.
Try updating to the latest 6.1 kernel and corresponding firmware package and see if that fixes your issues. If it doesn't, you should file a bug report upstream with Red Hat.