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

[Selwyn Schultz Sr]

The first thing I checked was the BIOS settings, and the radio is turned
on.

I have a clean install again and am still not working.

I think the iwlagn driver was deprecated by the iwlwifi driver.  In the
dmesg output I saw that it lists with iwlwifi direver as being the Wifi
Link AGN driver for Linux.

Two messages jump out at me.  Unable to init EEPROM and HARDWARE GONE??  I
have tried toggling the radio on and off after booting but that does not
seem to make a difference.



On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Cal Webster <cwebster at ec.rr.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 16:16 -0400, Selwyn Schultz Sr wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> Before you do that, try searching the yum repo. I came up with a number of
> hits:
>
> [root at INET1 ~]# yum search iwlagn
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> epel/metalink                                            |  13 kB
> 00:00
>  * base: centos.mirror.constant.com
>  * epel: archive.linux.duke.edu
>  * extras: centos.aol.com
>  * updates: dist1.800hosting.com
> adobe-linux-i386                                         |  951 B
> 00:00
> adobe-linux-x86_64                                       |  951 B
> 00:00
> base                                                     | 3.7 kB
> 00:00
> extras                                                   | 3.5 kB
> 00:00
> google-chrome                                            |  951 B
> 00:00
> updates                                                  | 3.5 kB
> 00:00
> =============================== Matched: iwlagn
> ================================
> iwl100-firmware.noarch : Firmware for Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 100
> Series
>                        : Adapters
> iwl1000-firmware.noarch : Firmware for Intel® PRO/Wireless 1000 B/G/N
> network
>                         : adaptors
> iwl5150-firmware.noarch : Firmware for Intel® Wireless 5150 A/G/N
> network
>                         : adaptors
> iwl6000-firmware.noarch : Firmware for Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 6000
> Series
>                         : AGN Adapter
> iwl6000g2a-firmware.noarch : Firmware for Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link
> 6005
>                            : Series Adapters
> iwl6000g2b-firmware.noarch : Firmware for Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link
> 6030
>                            : Series Adapters
> iwl6050-firmware.noarch : Firmware for Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 6050
> Series
>                         : Adapters
> [root at INET1 ~]#
>
> Also, be sure that your radio is enabled in BIOS and after boot, once
> you have the proper packages installed. If the wifi indicator is not lit
> it may be disabled. Most laptops have a function key sequence to
> enable/disable wifi/bluetooth. You may need to toggle this to get your
> wifi radio to turn on.
>
> >
> >
> > 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:
> > > **********
> > >
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Selwyn Schultz
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