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#1 2010-04-11 00:26:42

secretrobotron
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Registered: 2010-04-11
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[SOLVED] Neither wired nor wireless work on new Lenovo X201.

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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#2 2010-04-11 12:10:47

secretrobotron
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Re: [SOLVED] Neither wired nor wireless work on new Lenovo X201.

I've also tried ndiswrapper to no avail, but that may be an entirely different story.

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#3 2010-04-11 13:43:11

brianhanna
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Re: [SOLVED] Neither wired nor wireless work on new Lenovo X201.

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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#4 2010-04-11 15:28:25

secretrobotron
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Re: [SOLVED] Neither wired nor wireless work on new Lenovo X201.

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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#5 2010-04-11 16:16:12

secretrobotron
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Re: [SOLVED] Neither wired nor wireless work on new Lenovo X201.

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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#6 2010-04-11 16:28:13

brianhanna
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Re: [SOLVED] Neither wired nor wireless work on new Lenovo X201.

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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#7 2010-04-11 17:33:27

Zmyrgel
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Registered: 2006-09-30
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Re: [SOLVED] Neither wired nor wireless work on new Lenovo X201.

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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#8 2010-04-11 17:50:22

secretrobotron
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Re: [SOLVED] Neither wired nor wireless work on new Lenovo X201.

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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