On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 1:06 PM, John W. Linville <linvi...@redhat.com>wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 08:49:02AM -0300, Sebastian wrote: > > Thanks for the help. > > > > Just some background info and a query. > > I downloaded and did a fresh install of 64-bit Fedora about a week ago > from > > Fedora site.. > > Do I understand correctly that when I did the install, FC14 loaded the > rev > > 09 firmware and that > > this is already an old firmware? > > No. FWIW, the "rev 09" you got from lspci is about the _hardware_ > revision. > > The iwl6000-firmware package should be installed by default, especially > on a clean install. It is possible that the base Fedora install has > an older version (not sure when the last update happened), but if > you have done a "yum update" then you should already have the updated > firmware package. > Correct John, I did a "yum update" > > > Now, do I understand correctly that I need to keep that old firmware > > but roll back to an older Fedora Kernel to get the Intel Centrino > Advanced-N > > 6200 to play nice > > with Fedora? > > This is incorrect. Please forget it. > > What seems most likely is that you have an older (possibly pre-release) > piece of hardware that has EEPROM data on the card that the driver > refuses to recognize. Whether or not it is supposed to recognize it > is the only remaining question. Hopefully Wey-yi will chime-in. > > Not sure if I have a pre-release piece of hardware. Is there a way to find this out for sure? The hardware did work with windows 7. Who is Wey-yi?
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