I recently bought a new Dell XPS 15R laptop and installed Fedora 15 Beta
on it. I have been having trouble getting the wireless adapter to work.
After downloading and installing the latest Intel Wireless WiFi
driver/firmware iwlwifi-6000g2b from www.intellinuxwireless.org, the
wireless adapter worked until the system was rebooted a second time.
Now all I get is that wireless is unavailable though the mac address of
the adapter is listed in the network configuration dialog.
My system is running Fedora 15 beta, 64-bit, with an Intel Centrino
Advanced-N 6230 wireless adapter.
As far as I can tell, the iwlagn driver is loading successfully as shown
by a section of dmesg shown below.
Section of Dmesg:
[ 15.431294] *iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for
Linux, in-tree:d*
[ 15.431297] iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2010 Intel Corporation
[ 15.431414] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low)
-> IRQ 17
[ 15.431470] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 15.431598] *iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Centrino(R)
Advanced-N 6230 AGN, REV=0xB0*
[ 15.448529] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: device EEPROM VER=0x716, CALIB=0x6
[ 15.448532] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Device SKU: 0Xb
[ 15.448534] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Valid Tx ant: 0X3, Valid Rx ant: 0X3
[ 15.448565] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg,
24 802.11a channels
[ 15.448927] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: irq 49 for MSI/MSI-X
. . .
[ 15.833594] *iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: loaded firmware version
17.168.5.2 build 35905*
This appears to be a common problem but I have not seen any solutions
for it posted anywhere. Any suggestions, comments, feedback will be
welcome.
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Steven F. LeBrun
* Dell XPS 15R
o 64 bit
o 8 GB
o Intell Core i5-2410M CPU
o Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6230
o Intel Sandybridge Mobile
* Fedora 15 Beta
o Gnome 3
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