CentOS - Apr 2016 - CentOS 7.2 laptop wireless Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 2230 (rev c4)

this seems to be the right firmware

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/_media/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi-2030-ucode-18.168.6.1.tgz
<https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/_media/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi-2030-ucode-18.168.6.1.tgz>


> Am 14.04.2016 um 05:01 schrieb John R Pierce <pierce at
hogranch.com>:
> 
> On 4/13/2016 7:42 PM, Philip V wrote:
>> lspci gives
>> 08:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 2230
(rev c4)
>> 
>> 1. How do I get this working?  I am happy to work with command line
tools.
>> 
>> 2. Are there other packages I need? I installed wireless-tools, and
>> tried to fiddle with iwconfig and NetworkManager to no avail. iwconfig
>> does seem to interact with the wifi device.
>> 
>> 3. Is there documentation I should be following to
>> understand/troubleshoot networking support?
>> https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless  does not document the
>> iwlwifi driver.
> 
> 
> https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi
> 
> suggests you might need to get a firmware tarball for that card, and copy
the appropriate iwlwifi-*.ucode file to /lib/firmware or something.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
> 
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Hello Philip,

In my test cases on Centos 6 or 7 I always run an elrepo kernel or build my own
one from rewritten spec file. That helps me out to get Centos work as good it
can be.

Personal playground, those packages are unsigned!!!

http://centos.cms4all.org/centos/7/ <http://centos.cms4all.org/centos/7/>

<kernel>
noarch git firmware
kernel ml aufs - oh I was lazy

<gstreamer>
- Get Multimedia work, all my videos incl. DVD, midi and other audio files are
working
  I was given up after test many repros.

<drivers>
libdrm 
radeon (no new iMac 2015?hmmm)
hardinfo

<other>
mutter - gnome 3 windows shadow hack
netatalk - apple time capsule on centos


Centos 7 live on usbdrive to test it on different machines?.

Fun with Centos 7

PS:hm? gstreamer was working with centos 6 damm

     Don?t hammer my virtual server otherwise i push them away?.




> Am 14.04.2016 um 08:47 schrieb Andreas Benzler <andreas at
benzlerweb.de>:
> 
> this seems to be the right firmware
> 
>
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/_media/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi-2030-ucode-18.168.6.1.tgz
<https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/_media/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi-2030-ucode-18.168.6.1.tgz>
> 
> 
> 
>> Am 14.04.2016 um 05:01 schrieb John R Pierce <pierce at
hogranch.com>:
>> 
>> On 4/13/2016 7:42 PM, Philip V wrote:
>>> lspci gives
>>> 08:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N
2230 (rev c4)
>>> 
>>> 1. How do I get this working?  I am happy to work with command line
tools.
>>> 
>>> 2. Are there other packages I need? I installed wireless-tools, and
>>> tried to fiddle with iwconfig and NetworkManager to no avail.
iwconfig
>>> does seem to interact with the wifi device.
>>> 
>>> 3. Is there documentation I should be following to
>>> understand/troubleshoot networking support?
>>> https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless  does not document
the
>>> iwlwifi driver.
>> 
>> 
>> https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi
>> 
>> suggests you might need to get a firmware tarball for that card, and
copy the appropriate iwlwifi-*.ucode file to /lib/firmware or something.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> CentOS mailing list
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Hi John, Thank you, elrepo sounds good to know about --
http://elrepo.org/tiki/About says is an extra repository for hardware
support.
Still not clear how to troubleshoot the problem so I know what to
install from elrepo.

I know that a spec file is involved in creating an RPM file; do you
mean that you make your own kernel RPM?


On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 4:05 AM, Andreas Benzler <andreas at
benzlerweb.de> wrote:
> Hello Philip,
>
> In my test cases on Centos 6 or 7 I always run an elrepo kernel or build my
own one from rewritten spec file. That helps me out to get Centos work as good
it can be.
>
> Personal playground, those packages are unsigned!!!
>
> http://centos.cms4all.org/centos/7/
<http://centos.cms4all.org/centos/7/>
>
> <kernel>
> noarch git firmware
> kernel ml aufs - oh I was lazy
>
> <gstreamer>
> - Get Multimedia work, all my videos incl. DVD, midi and other audio files
are working
>   I was given up after test many repros.
>
> <drivers>
> libdrm
> radeon (no new iMac 2015?hmmm)
> hardinfo
>
> <other>
> mutter - gnome 3 windows shadow hack
> netatalk - apple time capsule on centos
>
>
> Centos 7 live on usbdrive to test it on different machines?.
>
> Fun with Centos 7
>
> PS:hm? gstreamer was working with centos 6 damm
>
>      Don?t hammer my virtual server otherwise i push them away?.
>
>
>
>
>
>> Am 14.04.2016 um 08:47 schrieb Andreas Benzler <andreas at
benzlerweb.de>:
>>
>> this seems to be the right firmware
>>
>>
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/_media/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi-2030-ucode-18.168.6.1.tgz
<https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/_media/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi-2030-ucode-18.168.6.1.tgz>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Am 14.04.2016 um 05:01 schrieb John R Pierce <pierce at
hogranch.com>:
>>>
>>> On 4/13/2016 7:42 PM, Philip V wrote:
>>>> lspci gives
>>>> 08:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino
Wireless-N 2230 (rev c4)
>>>>
>>>> 1. How do I get this working?  I am happy to work with command
line tools.
>>>>
>>>> 2. Are there other packages I need? I installed wireless-tools,
and
>>>> tried to fiddle with iwconfig and NetworkManager to no avail.
iwconfig
>>>> does seem to interact with the wifi device.
>>>>
>>>> 3. Is there documentation I should be following to
>>>> understand/troubleshoot networking support?
>>>> https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless  does not
document the
>>>> iwlwifi driver.
>>>
>>>
>>> https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi
>>>
>>> suggests you might need to get a firmware tarball for that card,
and copy the appropriate iwlwifi-*.ucode file to /lib/firmware or something.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> CentOS mailing list
>>> CentOS at centos.org
>>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
>>
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