linux kernel 3.3.2 and intel n 6200 wireless deriver

hello

i’m a new user off opensuse
i download linux kernel 3.3.2 and patch from Kernel.org and compile and install it.
( $make
$make modules_install
$make install
)
kernel work well but i can’t install wireless deriver :frowning:
my os is opensouse 12.1 and my laptop dell studio 1558 (core i7) my wireless device intel N 6200
(default opensuse kernel wireless deriver work done)

how can i solve this problem ?:frowning:

Hello mohsenti,

although I am not in charge here I may
welcome you to the forum!

I think if you read the stickies on the top of this forum and post the results here
you could give possible helpers more information.

Especially the output of

/sbin/lspci -nnk

(please post only the lines concerning your wireless lan/wifi/wlan )
or just the output of

/sbin/lspci -nnk | grep -i -A2 net

and


dmesg | grep iwlagn

(all also in code tags like above)
would probably be of help.

Also your wireless lan card may just be soft blocked or hard blocked. So
you may (if not done already)
install rfkill with

su -c "zypper in rfkill"

and list the blocks with

/usr/sbin/rfkill list

Please post also the result in also between [noparse]

 and 

[/noparse].

My amateurish guess would be that your wlan card would normaly need

the iwlwifi driver (already part of the kernel “since 2.6.24” -> Intel® Wireless WiFi Link drivers for Linux* )

and

some firmware (6000-ucode -> http://intellinuxwireless.org/tar.php?p=iwlwifi&f=README.iwlwifi-6000-ucode&a=iwlwifi-6000-ucode-9.221.4.1.tgz ) that also should be on your system if your wlan had working with (one of) the openSUSE 12.1 ‘normal’ kernels and is part of the opensuse package kernel-firmware-> https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file?file=kernel-firmware.spec&package=kernel-firmware&project=openSUSE%3A12.1&rev=0a62b8d935cef8fcb8529128cfd33343 ).

So an analyze (like described in the sticky and partly above) in order to find the fault might be the best begin here also.

Good luck
Martin

Hi, a warm welcome.

On linux you normally don’t install drivers, they’ve already come with the kernel. And yes, there are some exceptions, but instead of immediately installing another kernel on a brandnew install … With actions like these you walk away from the defaults which makes it harder to help you out. Please post the info asked for.

The vBulletin usenet gateway (www-to-NNTP-getaway) seems to have
swallowed the last part of my posting after the noparse-end-tag so I
post this part again via NNTP for the users of the usenet/NNTP-frontend:

On 16.04.2012 09:36, pistazienfresser wrote:
…]
> Please post also the result in also between
> Code:
> --------------------
> and
> --------------------

Maybe the getaway does not approve of me of me using “also” once too
much in the last sentence before the swallowed part :wink: or does not like
noparse-tags?

Regards
Martin


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10.1093/ojls/gqi042

@OP: please open a terminal window, and do


ip addr

and post the output here

excuse me for bad English :frowning:

i execute /sbin/lspci -nnk | grep -i -A2 net command and it say

 
    04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6200 [8086:422c] (rev 35)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6200 2x2 AGN [8086:1321]
--
09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0413]
        Kernel driver in use: r8169

and when execute that command under default kernel say


04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6200 [8086:422c] (rev 35)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6200 2x2 AGN [8086:1321]
        Kernel driver in use: iwlagn
--
09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0413]
        Kernel driver in use: r8169

and i download firmware for wifi from intel web site and file name is iwlwifi-6000-ucode-9.221.4.1.tar contain 3 files readme and license and a ucode file
in readme at INSTALLATION part i found this text :frowning:

The iwlagn driver will look for the file iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode using the
kernel’s firmware_class infrastructure. More information can be found under
Documentation/firmware_class in kernel source. In order to function
correctly, you need to have this support enabled in your kernel. When
you configure the kernel, you can find this option in the following
location:

    Device Drivers ->
            Generic Driver Options ->
                    Userspace firmware loading support

You can determine if your kernel currently has firmware loader support
by looking for the CONFIG_FW_LOADER definition on your kernel’s
.config.

i think i need to compile kernel again :frowning:
to continue of that text another way to install is using udev

The steps for installing and configuring udev are very
distribution specific.

:frowning:

please help me to understand about udev installation and using it

You can typically find this location by looking in the
udev scripts of your distro, the default is /lib/firmware.

Installation of the firmware is simply:

    % cp iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode /lib/firmware

You can now load the driver (see the INSTALL and README.iwlwifi provided with
the iwlwifi package for information on building and using that driver.)

where can i find “INSTALL and README.iwlwifi provided with
the iwlwifi package for information on building and using that driver” and how to load driver ?

THANKS.

I do not know why you want the newest kernel.org kernel but I guess it is somewhere already build for openSUSE 12.1 by anyone.
For example the repository
download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/standard
looks interesting to me as it is included in
download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable
and the other repositories/directories there are clearly not for 12.1

[DIR] openSUSE_11.3/ 03-May-2011 21:22 -
[DIR] openSUSE_11.4/ 26-Feb-2011 12:52 -
[DIR] openSUSE_Factory/ 14-Mar-2011 12:13 -
[DIR] standard/ 15-Apr-2012 15:05 -

But please wait for someone more experienced …

Regards
Martin

On 04/16/2012 09:26 AM, mohsenti wrote:
> i execute /sbin/lspci -nnk | grep -i -A2 net command and it say
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
>
> 04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6200 [8086:422c] (rev 35)
> Subsystem: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6200 2x2 AGN [8086:1321]
> –
> 09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 03)
> Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0413]
> Kernel driver in use: r8169
>
> --------------------
>
>
> and when execute that command under default kernel say
>
> Code:
> --------------------
>
> 04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6200 [8086:422c] (rev 35)
> Subsystem: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6200 2x2 AGN [8086:1321]
> Kernel driver in use: iwlagn
> –
> 09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 03)
> Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0413]
> Kernel driver in use: r8169

Did you look at the difference in the two outputs? The default kernel has driver
iwlagn enabled for the wireless, but your self-built kernel does not. You have a
configuration problem!

Building your own kernel is not very difficult; however, it is very easy to mess
up the configuration, which results in a kernel that either will not boot, or it
does not work correctly. You need to decide if you are really ready for the
extra problems.

Am 16.04.2012 16:46, schrieb pistazienfresser:
>
> I do not know why you want the newest kernel.org kernel but I guess it
> is somewhere already build for openSUSE 12.1 by anyone.
> For example the repository
> ‘download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/standard
> (http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/standard/)
> looks interesting to me…]
>
>
@lwfinger and other ones more experienced than me:
I would also understand the text on
kernel.opensuse.org with
stable - http://kernel.opensuse.org/branches/stable
and
Daily builds for branch stable - http://kernel.opensuse.org/packages/stable
that the repository under
download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/standard/
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/standard/
would be the right one for users who want to test the latest ‘stable’
kernel from kernel.org on openSUSE 12.1 (at least until 12.2 get released).

@mohsenti
I am still not sure why you have built that new kernel - was it just for
the experience of building a kernel by yourself, for testing the new
kernel or did you hope to do something with the new kernel that does not
work with the kernel currently in the openSUSE 12.1 update repository
(This would be currently version 3.1.9-1.4 in several kernel flavors)?

Regards
Martin

WPA_SUPPLICANT

Hi everyone,
I want a wpa_supplicant config file in AP mode(ap_scan=2) which supports WPA/WPA2 Enterprise.pls help.

THANK U

On 04/17/2012 02:16 PM, Rajashekar91 wrote:
>
> WPA_SUPPLICANT
>
> Hi everyone,
> I want a wpa_supplicant config file in AP mode(ap_scan=2) which
> supports WPA/WPA2 Enterprise.pls help.

man wpa_supplicant.conf

I think your wish/problem has nothing to do with the mohsenti’s problem that is described in this thread.
In order to get better support and not confuse both mohsenti and the ones that are trying to help mohsenti and would be trying to help you:

Please open a new thread (with a fitting heading).

Regards
Martin