Installing firmware for intel 7260

[Geoffrey Leach]

Does not work for an unrecognized piece of hardware. Alas.

The good news is that although I thought I'd installed all updates, that apparently was not the case. Hopefully that will resolve the version conflict that I've discovered from the dmesg output.

On 08/20/2014 05:58:25 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 08/20/2014 04:04 PM, Geoffrey Leach issued this missive:
> > Here's how to get a MAC address. Assuming (as I do) you have Windows
> on the same box, go there and start Windows. Then start wireless. Now
> go to the router admin page on Fedora, asn look to see what's
> attached. Voila!
> >
> > The bad news: upgraded the definition for the connection. Still no
> luck.
> >
> > How can I tell if the kernel sees the driver?
> 
> To get the MAC address, as root, "ifconfig -a", look for the wifi
> device
> and look for the "ether" bit...just like any NIC:
> 
> [root at golem4 local]# ifconfig wlan0
> wlan0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
>          inet 192.168.2.157  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast
> 192.168.2.255
>          inet6 fe80::be77:37ff:fe51:115c  prefixlen 64  scopeid
> 0x20<link>
>   --->>> ether bc:77:37:51:11:5c  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet) <<<----
>          RX packets 165126  bytes 31581078 (30.1 MiB)
>          RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
>          TX packets 17241  bytes 1449351 (1.3 MiB)
>          TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
> 
> Alternately, use "lspci -v" and look for its entry. The MAC will be
> listed as "Device Serial Number":
> 
> 01:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1030
> 
> [Rainbow Peak] (rev 34)
> 	Subsystem: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1030 BGN
> 	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 49
> 	Memory at d1600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
> 	Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 3
> 	Capabilities: [d0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
> 	Capabilities: [e0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
> 	Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
>   ---->>	Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number
> bc-77-37-ff-ff-51-11-5c
> 	Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
> 	Kernel modules: iwlwifi
> 
> At least it does for me. Your mileage may differ.
> 
> > On 08/20/2014 02:11:13 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> >> Hmmm ... memo to self: always google first.
> >>
> >> So, two things. The MAC address that I used was for the ethernet
> >> interface. ip does not show wifi, nor does lspci. The module is
> >> loaded.
> >>
> >> On 08/20/2014 02:02:48 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> >>> The kernel info at the link is helpful in that it confirms that
> the
> >>> 7260 is supported. Your modprobe command is the key. With all of
> the
> >>> permutations I tried, that particular one never occurred :-) Of
> >>> course, modprobe installed the firmware with nary a complaint.
> With
> >>> this, NetworkManager permitted me to create an entry for wifi,
> >>> although this did not allow me to connect, even after a reboot
> >>> (modprobe config file in place)
> >>>
> >>> The only thing that I can think of is that I mis-copied the MAC
> >>> address at install time. Any idea how to find it?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 08/20/2014 01:07:22 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> >>>> On 08/20/2014 03:47 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> >>>>> I'm setting up a laptop with Fedora 19 up-to-date. The wireless
> >>> chip
> >>>> is an Intel 7260.HMW, and I've confirmed that it works (under
> >>>> windows). The chip was not recognized by the install, so I did a
> >> yum
> >>>> install of iwl7260.firmware.noarch. That did not install the
> >> module,
> >>>> and insmod refuses to install either of the two ucode files. So,
> >>>> presumably they're not modules ("firmware" might be a clue?) So,
> >> how
> >>>> should I proceed at this point?
> >>>>
> >>>> Have you looked here?
> >>>>
> >>>> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi
> >>>>
> >>>> What happens when you "modprobe iwlwifi" with the firmware
> >>> installed?
> >>>>
> >>>>> Thanks.
> >>>>
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