Tumbleweed: can't load module for Intel Centrino 6205

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Hello,

I cannot load the iwlwifi module for the Intel Centrino 6205 mini-pcie card:

01:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] (rev 34)

As far as I know, the module would be ‘iwlwifi’ but I cannot load that module:

modprobe: FATAL: Module iwlwifi not found in directory /lib/modules/5.18.11-1-default

In /lib/firmware the file is iwlwifi-6000g2a-6.ucode.xz

What would the OpenSuse way of doing this?

Using Tumbleweed on the BPI-R2 armhf (arm7) OpenSuse port.

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BPI-R2 is using armv7hl kernel and yes, iwlwifi is disabled in this kernel: kernel-source/config/armv7hl/default at 900302b52c4ef0db8a720adf925e81ede50c34ef · openSUSE/kernel-source · GitHub

Either you compile it as external module yourself or open bug report and request addition of this module.

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Thanks so much for the answer. Question: why did they do that? Did they not think that someone would be using that little mini-pcie thing for wireless?

I’ll now have to study how to compile the kernel the OpenSuse Tumbleweed way – would you know of any good documentation for that?

ta, t.

one last question: where could I submit a request for this to be included in the kernel?

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I tried to compile external iwlwifi on a kernel with disabled iwlwifi and this does not work - iwlwifi Makefile is heavily dependent on correct kernel config and there is no external module tarball. So I am afraid you would need to rebuild the whole kernel. Patched kernel source is in RPM kernel-source, otherwise it is standard Linux kernel compilation.

where could I submit a request for this to be included in the kernel?

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org, same user/password as here.