[RESOLVED] wireless - Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1000

[jameslast]

Dear All,

I'm releaving a HP Probook 4710S from it's native Vista :=)

First of all let me say I'm happy because CentOs 5.6 handles it's Ati Radeon graphic
flawlessly, unlike other Distro's I tried on this type of machine. So thumbs up for CentOs!

But now I've come to a stop on the wireless card.

$/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0
gives me :
# Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1000

So I had a look at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless, but found no clues on this type of card.

I found a driver on this site : http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/?n=downloads
and downloaded
iwlwifi-1000-ucode-39.31.5.1.tgz

I then utarred it , the README says :

2. INSTALLATION

The iwlagn driver will look for the file iwlwifi-1000-5.ucode using the
kernel's firmware_class infrastructure. More information can be found under
Documentation/firmware_class in kernel source. In order to function
correctly, you need to have this support enabled in your kernel. When
you configure the kernel, you can find this option in the following
location:

Device Drivers ->
Generic Driver Options ->
Userspace firmware loading support


You can determine if your kernel currently has firmware loader support
by looking for the CONFIG_FW_LOADER definition on your kernel's
.config.

In addition to having the firmware_class support in your kernel, you
must also have a working udev and uevent infrastructure configured.
The steps for installing and configuring udev are very
distribution specific.

Once you have the firmware loader in place (or if you aren't sure and
you just want to try things to see if it works), you need to install
the microcode file into the appropriate location.

Where that appropriate location is depends (again) on your system
distribution. You can typically find this location by looking in the
udev scripts of your distro, the default is /lib/firmware.

Installation of the firmware is simply:

% cp iwlwifi-1000-5.ucode /lib/firmware

You can now load the driver (see the INSTALL and README.iwlwifi provided with
the iwlwifi package for information on building and using that driver.)


I'm assuming the kernel is ok, so I just performed
cp iwlwifi-1000-5.ucode /lib/firmware

And ...that's pretty much the end of my knowledge. The network manager is not seeing any wireless networks .

I think I have the right driver, but what to do next?

Thanks already for any help.

hardware info :

== BEGIN uname -rmi ==
2.6.18-238.el5 i686 i386
== END uname -rmi ==

== BEGIN rpm -qa \*-release\* ==
epel-release-5-4
centos-release-5-6.el5.centos.1
rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf
centos-release-notes-5.6-0
elrepo-release-5-3.el5.elrepo
== END rpm -qa \*-release\* ==

== BEGIN cat /etc/redhat-release ==
CentOS release 5.6 (Final)
== END cat /etc/redhat-release ==

== BEGIN getenforce ==
Enforcing
== END getenforce ==
== BEGIN ls /etc/yum.repos.d ==
CentOS-Base.repo
CentOS-Debuginfo.repo
CentOS-Media.repo
CentOS-Vault.repo
elrepo.repo
epel.repo
epel-testing.repo
mirrors-rpmforge
mirrors-rpmforge-extras
mirrors-rpmforge-testing
rpmforge.repo
== END ls /etc/yum.repos.d ==
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M92 LP [Mobility Radeon HD 4300 Series]
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV710/730
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1000
86:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8072 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 10)
== END lspci ==

[r_hartman]

[url=http://elrepo.org/tiki/iwl1000-firmware]ElRepo[/url] has firmware for this adapter to be used with the iwlagn driver which is native in CentOS5.5 and 5.6

The firmware you downloaded may or may not be the same. Intel [url=http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/]mentions[/url] that it should be used with the native iwlwifi driver, and that the minimum kernel for this firmware is 2.6.30, indicating you should have better luck with CentOS6.

The output of
[code]lspci -nn | grep Centrino[/code]
will provide the vendor:device id pairing for this card (8086:nnnn), which allows you to [url=http://elrepo.org/tiki/DeviceIDs]verify[/url] whether that card is indeed supported by the ElRepo firmware.

[jameslast]

Hi All,

thank you for the reply, René.

After reading your post this morning, I installed CenOs 6 and....guess what?

IT WORKED RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX

Needles to say I'm very happy and impressed.

Grt, James

[AlanBartlett]

Thank you for reporting back with details of your success.

For posterity, and on your behalf, this thread is now marked [RESOLVED].