Fedora Core 14 wireless issue with Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200)

[Sebastian]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 1:06 PM, John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 08:49:02AM -0300, Sebastian wrote:
> > Thanks for the help.
> >
> > Just some background info and a query.
> > I downloaded and did a fresh install of 64-bit Fedora about a week ago
> from
> > Fedora site..
> > Do I understand correctly that when I did the install, FC14 loaded the
> rev
> > 09 firmware and that
> > this is already an old firmware?
>
> No.  FWIW, the "rev 09" you got from lspci is about the _hardware_
> revision.
>
> The iwl6000-firmware package should be installed by default, especially
> on a clean install.  It is possible that the base Fedora install has
> an older version (not sure when the last update happened), but if
> you have done a "yum update" then you should already have the updated
> firmware package.
>

Correct John, I did a "yum update"


>
> > Now, do I understand correctly that I need to keep that old firmware
> > but roll back to an older Fedora Kernel to get the Intel Centrino
> Advanced-N
> > 6200 to play nice
> > with Fedora?
>
> This is incorrect.  Please forget it.
>
> What seems most likely is that you have an older (possibly pre-release)
> piece of hardware that has EEPROM data on the card that the driver
> refuses to recognize.  Whether or not it is supposed to recognize it
> is the only remaining question.  Hopefully Wey-yi will chime-in.
>
>
Not sure if I have a pre-release piece of hardware.
Is there a way to find this out for sure? The hardware did work with windows
7.
Who is Wey-yi?
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