[opensuse] Support for Intel Centrino2 wireless chipset in openSUSE 11.00 ?
Hello, I just installed OS 11.0 on a brand new Dell Latitude E6500. All major items seem to be recognized fine (graphics, network, sound), but the kernel doesn't seem to find the wireless chipset. lspci just reports: 0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corp. Device 4232 Any suggestion ? TIA Cheers. Bye. Ph. A. -- *Philippe Andersson* Unix System Administrator IBA Particle Therapy | Tel: +32-10-475.983 Fax: +32-10-487.707 eMail: pan@iba-group.com http://www.iba-worldwide.com The contents of this e-mail message and any attachments are intended solely for the recipient (s) named above. This communication is intended to be and to remain confidential and may be protected by intellectual property rights. Any use of the information contained herein (including but not limited to, total or partial reproduction, communication or distribution of any form) by persons other than the designated recipient(s) is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. Ion Beam Applications does not accept liability for any such errors. Thank you for your cooperation.
Am Freitag, 3. Oktober 2008 schrieb Philippe Andersson:
Hello,
I just installed OS 11.0 on a brand new Dell Latitude E6500. All major items seem to be recognized fine (graphics, network, sound), but the kernel doesn't seem to find the wireless chipset.
lspci just reports:
0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corp. Device 4232
Any suggestion ?
SUSEs 2.6.25 kernel is too old to support Intels new 5xxx wifi series. You will have to update to kernel with current iwlagn driver ( as included in 2.6.27pre) and also install the matching firmware for that device. You may have a look on http://forums.opensuse.org/hardware/laptop/396152-thinkpad-lenovo-x200-opens... for more details. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hello Markus, Markus Koßmann wrote:
Am Freitag, 3. Oktober 2008 schrieb Philippe Andersson:
Hello,
I just installed OS 11.0 on a brand new Dell Latitude E6500. All major items seem to be recognized fine (graphics, network, sound), but the kernel doesn't seem to find the wireless chipset.
lspci just reports:
0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corp. Device 4232
Any suggestion ?
SUSEs 2.6.25 kernel is too old to support Intels new 5xxx wifi series. You will have to update to kernel with current iwlagn driver ( as included in 2.6.27pre) and also install the matching firmware for that device. You may have a look on http://forums.opensuse.org/hardware/laptop/396152-thinkpad-lenovo-x200-opens... for more details. Thanks a lot for this information. I'll look into it. I'll have to be carefull, though, since the NIC on this new laptop is an e1000e, and the 2.6.27 kernel series is said to kill it.
Ph. A. -- *Philippe Andersson* Unix System Administrator IBA Particle Therapy | Tel: +32-10-475.983 Fax: +32-10-487.707 eMail: pan@iba-group.com http://www.iba-worldwide.com The contents of this e-mail message and any attachments are intended solely for the recipient (s) named above. This communication is intended to be and to remain confidential and may be protected by intellectual property rights. Any use of the information contained herein (including but not limited to, total or partial reproduction, communication or distribution of any form) by persons other than the designated recipient(s) is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. Ion Beam Applications does not accept liability for any such errors. Thank you for your cooperation.
On Friday 03 October 2008 09:23:16 am Philippe Andersson wrote:
Hello Markus,
Markus Koßmann wrote:
Am Freitag, 3. Oktober 2008 schrieb Philippe Andersson:
Hello,
I just installed OS 11.0 on a brand new Dell Latitude E6500. All major items seem to be recognized fine (graphics, network, sound), but the kernel doesn't seem to find the wireless chipset.
lspci just reports:
0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corp. Device 4232
Any suggestion ?
SUSEs 2.6.25 kernel is too old to support Intels new 5xxx wifi series. You will have to update to kernel with current iwlagn driver ( as included in 2.6.27pre) and also install the matching firmware for that device. You may have a look on http://forums.opensuse.org/hardware/laptop/396152-thinkpad-lenovo-x200-op ensuse-11-0-a.html for more details.
Thanks a lot for this information. I'll look into it. I'll have to be carefull, though, since the NIC on this new laptop is an e1000e, and the 2.6.27 kernel series is said to kill it.
Ph. A.
Here is an excert from a announcement I got today: Status of the e1000e issue ========================== Our beta1 release contained a bug that would cause the non-volatile memory (NVM) of the e1000e controller to be corrupted in certain hardware combinations. This NVM is shared with other components of the system. We are still working on root-causing the issue, in close cooperation with developers from Intel and the general Linux community. In this release, the e1000e driver has been augmented with several kernel patches that prevent all of the plausible scenarios where the NVM would be overwritten. This includes a patch that enables write-protection of the NVM. In order to corrupt the NVM with this patch in place, an application or kernel module would have to undo this write protection explicitly before being able to erase the NVM. Most of these protective measures have been implemented within the e1000e driver. All tests performed so far have shown that with these protections in place, we are unable to reproduce the NVM corruption that could be seen with beta1. On some machines that were tested, a beta1 installation could lead to NVM corruption within 10-30 reboots, whereas a beta2 installation would perform 270 reboots without corrupting the NVM. Therefore, we have made a conscious decision to leave the e1000e driver enabled by default. We think with the additional safeguards in place (most of which are part of the e1000e driver), the NVM is better protected than without loading the driver. This is based on the assumption that the e1000e driver shares the NVM with other parts of the system. Nevertheless, users have the option to install beta2 with the e1000e driver disabled, by adding the following to the kernel command line when booting from the installation CD/DVD: broken_modules=e1000e This will prevent the driver from being loaded during installation, and will also add it to the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, which will prevent it from being loaded automatically in the future. Looks like I can go ahead with my new motherboard or at least try. -- Russ Linux register user 441463 openSUSE 11.0 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Philippe Andersson
kernel doesn't seem to find the wireless chipset.
lspci just reports:
0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corp. Device 4232
Any suggestion ?
SUSEs 2.6.25 kernel is too old to support Intels new 5xxx wifi series. You will have to update to kernel with current iwlagn driver ( as included in 2.6.27pre) and also install the matching firmware for that device. You may have a look on http://forums.opensuse.org/hardware/laptop/396152-thinkpad-lenovo-x200-opens... for more details.
That link seems to be broken, I get a page not found error. I would be very interested in a fix since my new laptop has the intel 5100 chipset. It's a different device than the OP's. I've searched high and low for a driver and finally found on the Intel site that there is no linux support as yet for the 5100 and 5300 wireless chipsets: http://support.intel.com/support/wireless/wlan/sb/CS-025330.htm Is that wrong? Gustav -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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