Re: Installing firmware for intel 7260

2014-08-20 Thread Geoffrey Leach
Does not work for an unrecognized piece of hardware. Alas. The good news is that although I thought I'd installed all updates, that apparently was not the case. Hopefully that will resolve the version conflict that I've discovered from the dmesg output. On 08/20/2014 05:58:25 PM, Rick Stevens w

Re: Installing firmware for intel 7260

2014-08-20 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/20/2014 04:04 PM, Geoffrey Leach issued this missive: Here's how to get a MAC address. Assuming (as I do) you have Windows on the same box, go there and start Windows. Then start wireless. Now go to the router admin page on Fedora, asn look to see what's attached. Voila! The bad news: up

Re: Installing firmware for intel 7260

2014-08-20 Thread Geoffrey Leach
Here's how to get a MAC address. Assuming (as I do) you have Windows on the same box, go there and start Windows. Then start wireless. Now go to the router admin page on Fedora, asn look to see what's attached. Voila! The bad news: upgraded the definition for the connection. Still no luck. How

Re: Installing firmware for intel 7260

2014-08-20 Thread Geoffrey Leach
Hmmm ... memo to self: always google first. So, two things. The MAC address that I used was for the ethernet interface. ip does not show wifi, nor does lspci. The module is loaded. On 08/20/2014 02:02:48 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > The kernel info at the link is helpful in that it confirms that

Re: Installing firmware for intel 7260

2014-08-20 Thread Geoffrey Leach
The kernel info at the link is helpful in that it confirms that the 7260 is supported. Your modprobe command is the key. With all of the permutations I tried, that particular one never occurred :-) Of course, modprobe installed the firmware with nary a complaint. With this, NetworkManager permit

Re: Installing firmware for intel 7260

2014-08-20 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/20/2014 12:47 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: I'm setting up a laptop with Fedora 19 up-to-date. The wireless chip is an Intel 7260.HMW, and I've confirmed that it works (under windows). The chip was not recognized by the install, so I did a yum install of iwl7260.firmware.noarch. That did not

Re: Installing firmware for intel 7260

2014-08-20 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 08/20/2014 03:47 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > I'm setting up a laptop with Fedora 19 up-to-date. The wireless chip is an > Intel 7260.HMW, and I've confirmed that it works (under windows). The chip > was not recognized by the install, so I did a yum install of > iwl7260.firmware.noarch. That d

Installing firmware for intel 7260

2014-08-20 Thread Geoffrey Leach
I'm setting up a laptop with Fedora 19 up-to-date. The wireless chip is an Intel 7260.HMW, and I've confirmed that it works (under windows). The chip was not recognized by the install, so I did a yum install of iwl7260.firmware.noarch. That did not install the module, and insmod refuses to inst