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

[John W. Linville]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:14:18PM -0300, Sebastian wrote:
> Thank you for those who have taken the time to suggest possible ways to get
> my card working.
> It seems I have the latest firmware, the one that came with the Fedora
> 64-bit DVD, that I downloaded from fedora ~1 week ago.
> This is the output John was asking,
> 
> [root at cupri Downloads]# rpm -q iwl6000-firmware
> > iwl6000-firmware-9.221.4.1-1.fc14.noarch
> >
> 
> John, the wireless card was put into a machine I won on ebay by the same
> authorised dell ebay reseller,
> from Australia. The machine came with windows 7, I tested it in wondowz and
> the card appeared to work fine in windows 7.
> 
>  Any other hints on the next steps to take to try to get wireless working
> for this card, on Fedora 14?

Well, it sounds like the hardware you have may not be entirely "legit",
and Intel doesn't want to support it.

You could try rebuilding your kernel locally, changing the value of
EEPROM_6000_EEPROM_VERSION in drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-eeprom.h
to 0x423 (I think that was the value your device reported).  I doubt
if you like that option, but I'm not sure what else to suggest.
The problem is that the EEPROM contains information related to
regulatory compliance, so using an unsupported data format could
allow your device to operate outside of legal parameters. :-(

Perhaps you could get your hardware supplier to swap-out the card
for one obtained through more "official" channels?

John
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