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Hello there!
I just received a beautiful new X201, and I've had nothing but trouble in trying to get access to the tubes.
lspci | grep Net gives me
Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82577LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 06)
Network controller: Intel Corporation Wifi Link 6000 Series (rev 35)
After fresh install ifconfig shows only "lo" as active, and ifconfig -a shows wlan0 and wmaster0.
I pretty much gave up on wired ethernet after thinkwiki said e1000e should work (http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Intel_Gig … CI-Express). After
modprobe e1000e
dmesg says everything is great, but nothing shows up when I do another ifconfig -a.
As for my wireless card, the 82577LM, arch automagically loads iwlagn on startup. When I try
ifconfig wlan0 up
arch yells at me:
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
So fun! dmesg says
iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-6000-2.ucode
iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: firmware: iwlwifi-6000-2.ucode firmware file req failed: -2
iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-6000-1.ucode
iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: firmware: iwlwifi-6000-1.ucode firmware file req failed: -2
Fail.
After some digging around, I found out that there's a new iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode, but I have no idea how to use it, can hardly remember where I found it, and currently haven't the strength in my Google-Fu to find its source again.
Help? Please? I love arch. I want to use it!
Last edited by secretrobotron (2010-05-17 13:47:30)
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I've also tried ndiswrapper to no avail, but that may be an entirely different story.
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Looks like your firmware is in core already. http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/ … ode/files/
Did you remember to check the box to load the firmware package during the install?
Last edited by brianhanna (2010-04-11 13:57:10)
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I actually checked that. I've installed it about 4 times now, trying different things. Obviously, I prefer to do a netinstall, but couldn't. Core only had up to iwlwifi-5XXX when I tried last.
Is it possible that the version I downloaded was somehow old? The source from which I got it keeps a fairly up-to-date copy of arch.
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There is definitely no iwlwifi-6000-ucode option. Only iwlwifi-5150-ucode and below.
Is it a hidden part of another package?
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the latest install image is from August last year. I guess it wasn't in there yet at that time. The curse of brand new hardware.
Here are a couple workarounds I can think of:
- Install the current core image, put the latest firmware & driver packages on a usb stick and load the packages from there.
- Find a USB wifi adapter with good linux support and use that for your net install and until you get the internal card working.
Edit: after thinking about it, that driver's part of the kernel isn't it? The new firmware may not work with the old kernel but it's probably worth a shot.
Last edited by brianhanna (2010-04-11 16:37:46)
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Just few days ago I got my X201 up and running with this:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=93365&p=1
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Thanks. I'll give that a try. I had seen that forum post before, but was leaving that as a last resort. I'd rather not build stuff on my own if I don't have to so that transitions and upgrades are easy.
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