Hello All: Sorry about the delay in getting back. I am not sure if I will be able to repeat the install procedure, so this is from my possibly faulty memory. I did a few installs before getting a clean one. Some of what I saw may be my own fault. Here is a longer explanation. The first time I was desperate did not follow the suggested install procedure, rather I added the tumbleweed repo and I tried to upgrade only the kernel and allow it to pull in any dependencies to address the wifi issue, but the firmware was not in /lib/firmware. I tried another install with Tumbleweed upgrade, but I had an uneasy feeling that I did not correctly follow the instructions (I reordered some steps). The file was not present that time. I discovered that I could add it and fix the problem during this attempt. However, the installation was not stable (I had some lockups, probably due to trying to coerce various KDE packages). I also wasn't sure whether providing the microcode (or renaming it to iwlwifi-2000-5.ucode) would work, so I tried rolling back to the default 12.1 install, but that did not work. The last time I did it I may have confounded the experiment, since I think I may have left the iwlwifi-2000-6.ucode in the /lib/firmware directory. I'm not sure if I'll have time to do another install. Here are some of the things that I see: linux-2kt2:~ # rpm -q kernel-firmware kernel-firmware-20120521git-7.1.noarch linux-2kt2:~ # rpm -qf /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-2000-6.ucode kernel-firmware-20120521git-7.1.noarch This appears to confirm Greg and Jiri's analysis, and possibly refute my initial claims. If I install again, I'll double check it, but since I've spent a fair amount of time moving on to downloading and installing additional packages to set up my work environment, another install is not guaranteed to happen. Perhaps I can try in a VM. With best regards: Bill ----------------------------------------
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 14:54:22 -0700 From: gregkh@linux.com To: jslaby@suse.cz CC: Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net; foolishewe@hotmail.com; opensuse-factory@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse-factory] Wifi support for Intel Centrino-N 2200 needs missing /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-2000-6.ucode
On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 11:16:32PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
On 07/05/2012 11:08 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git
#
rpm -qf /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-2000-6.ucode kernel-firmware-20120521git-7.1.noarch
To get a version of a driver that uses this firmware, get a copy of the compat-wireless package for your kernel.
# modinfo iwlwifi|grep iwlwifi-2000 firmware: iwlwifi-2000-6.ucode
# rpm -q kernel-desktop kernel-desktop-3.4.3-30.1.x86_64
dazed and confused,
Yeah, I don't understand either, it all looks just fine for a Tumbleweed system. Foolish Ewe, what version of kernel-firmware are you using?
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