F15B: Wireless Unavailable

[Steven F. LeBrun]

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.

After downloading and installing the latest Intel Wireless WiFi 
driver/firmware iwlwifi-6000g2b from www.intellinuxwireless.org, 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.

My system is running Fedora 15 beta, 64-bit, with an Intel Centrino 
Advanced-N 6230 wireless adapter.

As far as I can tell, the iwlagn driver is loading successfully as shown 
by a section of dmesg shown below.

Section of Dmesg:

    [   15.431294] *iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for
    Linux, in-tree:d*
    [   15.431297] iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2010 Intel Corporation
    [   15.431414] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low)
    -> IRQ 17
    [   15.431470] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
    [   15.431598] *iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Centrino(R)
    Advanced-N 6230 AGN, REV=0xB0*
    [   15.448529] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: device EEPROM VER=0x716, CALIB=0x6
    [   15.448532] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Device SKU: 0Xb
    [   15.448534] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Valid Tx ant: 0X3, Valid Rx ant: 0X3
    [   15.448565] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg,
    24 802.11a channels
    [   15.448927] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: irq 49 for MSI/MSI-X
    . . .
    [   15.833594] *iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: loaded firmware version
    17.168.5.2 build 35905*

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.

-- 
   Steven F. LeBrun

    * Dell XPS 15R
          o 64 bit
          o 8 GB
          o Intell Core i5-2410M CPU
          o Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6230
          o Intel Sandybridge Mobile
    * Fedora 15 Beta
          o Gnome 3


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