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

[Sebastian]

OK, thanks Wey_yi for chiming in, however, even if i do get the card to work
in linux by recompiling the kernel or do use it in windows,
as you say, given that the EPROM is not to FCC standard, could I be putting
other components of my computer and/or myself at any risk?



On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 1:44 PM, wwguy <wey-yi.w.guy at intel.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 08:27 -0800, Sebastian wrote:
> > Thanks John for the message.
> > Did Wey-yi respond to your mail John?
> > Is the "too old" Eprom, firmware conjecture reasonable, considering
> > the card DOES work in Windows 7 as verified?
> > Unfortunately swapping out the card is not feasible since it would
> > have to travel to Australia from Argentina and then the new one back
> > again, bad for the hip pocket and more importantly for the
> > environment.
> >
> > Haven't been able to contact intel yet, although i've been trying hard
> > for the last few days.
> > I don't really want to build my own Kernel, since I have no
> > experience, and heard it is a pain in the proverbial.
> > So I think i'll try to run a live ubuntu CD to see what happens... or
> > maybe buy a new card locally.
> >
> >
> Hi Sebastian,
>
> Very sorry to know you have an "engineer sample" NIC, John is right, the
> old EEPROM will have issue with regulatory compliance and Intel will not
> support it.
>
> The only choice you have will be:
> 1. swap out the card and replace with a good card
> 2. modify the iwl-eeprom.c file and rebuild kernel which I don't really
> recommend.
> 3. switch to "Window" OS since Window driver don't check the EEPROM
> version (Window driver's bug for not checking EEPROM version).
>
>
> Wey
>
>
>
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