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I recently bought a new Dell XPS 15R laptop and installed Fedora 15
Beta on it. I have been having trouble getting the wireless adapter
to work.<br>
<br>
After downloading and installing the latest Intel Wireless WiFi
driver/firmware iwlwifi-6000g2b from <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.intellinuxwireless.org">www.intellinuxwireless.org</a>, the
wireless adapter worked until the system was rebooted a second
time. Now all I get is that wireless is unavailable though the mac
address of the adapter is listed in the network configuration
dialog.<br>
<br>
My system is running Fedora 15 beta, 64-bit, with an Intel Centrino
Advanced-N 6230 wireless adapter.<br>
<br>
As far as I can tell, the iwlagn driver is loading successfully as
shown by a section of dmesg shown below.<br>
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Section of Dmesg:<br>
<blockquote>[ 15.431294] <b>iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link
AGN driver for Linux, in-tree:d</b><br>
[ 15.431297] iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2010 Intel Corporation<br>
[ 15.431414] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level,
low) -> IRQ 17<br>
[ 15.431470] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64<br>
[ 15.431598] <b>iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel(R)
Centrino(R) Advanced-N 6230 AGN, REV=0xB0</b><br>
[ 15.448529] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: device EEPROM VER=0x716,
CALIB=0x6<br>
[ 15.448532] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Device SKU: 0Xb<br>
[ 15.448534] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Valid Tx ant: 0X3, Valid Rx
ant: 0X3<br>
[ 15.448565] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg,
24 802.11a channels<br>
[ 15.448927] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: irq 49 for MSI/MSI-X<br>
. . .<br>
[ 15.833594] <b>iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: loaded firmware version
17.168.5.2 build 35905</b><br>
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</blockquote>
This appears to be a common problem but I have not seen any
solutions for it posted anywhere. Any suggestions, comments,
feedback will be welcome.<br>
<br>
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Steven F. LeBrun<br>
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<ul>
<li>Dell XPS 15R</li>
<ul>
<li>64 bit</li>
<li>8 GB</li>
<li>Intell Core i5-2410M CPU</li>
<li>Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6230</li>
<li>Intel Sandybridge Mobile</li>
</ul>
<li>Fedora 15 Beta</li>
<ul>
<li>Gnome 3</li>
</ul>
</ul>
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