[CentOS] Cannot get Centrino N 6200 wireless NIC to work Cento 6.4

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Selwyn Schultz Sr wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 1:01 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>> Selwyn Schultz Sr wrote:
>> > I installed Centos 6.4 on my laptop and neither of the network
>> > interfaces will work.  When I boot up to windows both the wired
>> > and the wireless network interfaces work.  I have attached dmesg
>> > output for the wireless card.  Reading through the messages it
>> > appears that OS cannot talk to the NIC.
>> >
>> First, have you tried googling Centos 6 centrino N 6200, as I just did?
>> And the very first hit was posted 11 Jan 2011, and one comment was:
>> ************
>> The Intel Wireless WiFi Link 6200AGN and 6300AGN Adapters are supported
>> by
>> the iwlagn driver in 5.5 and 5.6.
>>
>> You will need the appropriate firmware installed, in this case
>> iwl6000-firmware available from elrepo.org:
>> **********

> I am very new to installing Linux on laptops.  I got it working on another
> Toshiba I owned without to much trouble, and then decided I wanted to
> experiment with KVM so I bought this laptop with an I5 chip.
>
> Anyway I tried modprobe iwlagn and the driver is not found.  I then did a
> search for it using find and again came up empty handed.  Googling for
> Centos iwlagn seems to indicate that the module is a standard part of the
> Centos 6 build.  But I seem to be missing this on my installation.  I will
> do a fresh installation and see if that does not install the module.

Let's try again: please read what I write, not what you think I wrote.

First, please stop top posting. Top posting, as I just explained to my
wife, is what Outlook does these days. Add at the *bottom*, not the top.

Secondly, the excerpt I included said that if you can't, by default with
the current standard repositories, yum install it, you might have to add
the elrepo repository to your /etc/yum.repos by going there and installing
the elrepo repository, and *then* yum installing from there. It also looks
like it needs a kernel module, and that looks like it's firmware from one
of these packages: <http://elrepo.org/tiki/Packages#I>

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