[SOLVED] Intel Wireless Network Driver ?

[Depado]

Hello,

Since I installed Fedora (only because it's the only distribution that supports UEFI when installing), my wireless card seems not to work although I got all the Intel Drivers installed (or the main intel drivers). First, can anyone tell me if my wireless card is recognized by Fedora ?
Here is the lspci output :

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Ivy Bridge DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Ivy Bridge PCI Express Root Port (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 0166 (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Panther Point USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Panther Point MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Panther Point USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Panther Point High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Panther Point PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev c4)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Panther Point PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev c4)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Panther Point PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev c4)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Panther Point USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Panther Point LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Panther Point 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Panther Point SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 1058 (rev a1)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Device 0887 (rev c4)
04:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 5289 (rev 01)
04:00.2 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 0a)

For your information for now I have to carry a big USB Wireless key. It's not very... Comfortable.
I must apologize because my english may not be as good as your, I'm not a native.

Thanks for your help =)

[smr54]

There are several Intel drivers--I don't know which one that card takes, but have you tried all of them?

Search for iwl and see if adding ones that you don't have might help.

[Depado]

I installed them all. Changed nothing. :/

[PabloTwo]

If you put "Network controller: Intel Corporation Device 0887 (rev c4)" into google search, you'll come up with several things to look at:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2062101
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...rd-4175428936/

Neither of the above items gave a solution, but shows the loaded kernal module iwlagn for that chipset, which attempts to load the required firmware: "iwlwifi-2030-5.ucode" or "iwlwifi-2030-6.ucode", neither of which seems to be provided in the Fedora (at least not for F16) repos.

That is a 2000 series Intel wifi chipset:

BASH:~/-> sudo yum list iwl*-firmware
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto
Installed Packages
iwl100-firmware.noarch                                      39.31.5.1-2.fc15                                    @koji-override-0/$releasever
iwl1000-firmware.noarch                                     1:39.31.5.1-1.fc16                                  @koji-override-0/$releasever
iwl3945-firmware.noarch                                     15.32.2.9-5.fc15                                    @koji-override-0/$releasever
iwl4965-firmware.noarch                                     228.61.2.24-3.fc15                                  @koji-override-0/$releasever
iwl5000-firmware.noarch                                     8.83.5.1_1-1.fc16                                   @koji-override-0/$releasever
iwl5150-firmware.noarch                                     8.24.2.2-2.fc15                                     @koji-override-0/$releasever
iwl6000-firmware.noarch                                     9.221.4.1-2.fc15                                    @koji-override-0/$releasever
iwl6000g2a-firmware.noarch                                  17.168.5.3-1.fc16                                   @koji-override-0/$releasever
iwl6000g2b-firmware.noarch                                  17.168.5.2-1.fc16                                   @koji-override-0/$releasever
iwl6050-firmware.noarch                                     41.28.5.1-3.fc15                                    @koji-override-0/$releasever

BASH:~/-> locate iwlwifi
/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-100-5.ucode
/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-1000-3.ucode
/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-1000-5.ucode
/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode
/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode
/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3945.ucode
/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-4965-1.ucode
/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode
/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode
/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode
/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode
/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5150-2.ucode
/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode
/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6000g2a-5.ucode
/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6000g2b-5.ucode
/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6050-4.ucode
/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6050-5.ucode
  <snip>

There is no "kernel-modules-extra" package for F16, but I checked the contents of that package for F17 on koji to see if there might be some "firmware" files included, but no. Seems like the solution is to find and install the "iwlwifi-2030-5.ucode" file, if you can find it somewhere.

---------- Post added at 12:37 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:14 PM ----------

I found a downloadsource for the iwlwifi-2030-6.ucode file. Grab the iwlwifi-2030-ucode-18.168.6.1.tgz package. I don't know if that will satisfy the firmware dependency if the kernel module driver is looking only for the iwlwifi-2030-5.ucode file though.

BASH:~/-> tar tzvf Downloads/iwlwifi-2030-ucode-18.168.6.1.tgz 
drwxr-xr-x scmbuild/scmbuild 0 2012-01-13 13:57 iwlwifi-2030-ucode-18.168.6.1/
-rw-r--r-- scmbuild/scmbuild 707392 2012-01-13 13:57 iwlwifi-2030-ucode-18.168.6.1/iwlwifi-2030-6.ucode
-rw-r--r-- scmbuild/scmbuild   4778 2012-01-13 13:57 iwlwifi-2030-ucode-18.168.6.1/README.iwlwifi-2030-ucode
-rw-r--r-- scmbuild/scmbuild   2046 2012-01-13 13:57 iwlwifi-2030-ucode-18.168.6.1/LICENSE.iwlwifi-2030-ucode

[Depado]

Thanks a lot for all your researches !
What am I supposed to do with those files ? Place it in the firmware directory ?

---------- Post added at 08:31 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:24 PM ----------

It is working. Now I got a simple problem, my computer (network manager) seems to be in "Air plane mode" permanently. I can switch on wifi, but it goes off immediatly after that, but I can still connect to a network manually. Though I can't see the available networks. Do you have any idea what can cause that kind of thing ?

---------- Post added at 08:47 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:31 PM ----------

Okay I just had to reboot and upgrade my whole system. Now it's working like a charm. Thanks guys ! (How can I put that thread as Solved ?)

[smr54]

If you started the thread, you can click the thread tools and there should be an option to mark it solved.

Actually, you might also explain what you did with the files that Pablo linked to, so that the next person, with a similar problem, knows what to do.

[Depado]

I just put the iwlwifi-2030-6.ucode in the /lib/firmware folder. And rebooted. Worked. Done. xD