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dpshak
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Location: Wisconsin
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Forgive me for bumping an old topic...
I have an old ASUS laptop that I bought (I think) in 2010 or so. It was my 'truck' laptop and, once I sold my truck and took a local job, I didn't use it much anymore. It had a 3.#.# kernel in it, a late KDE3 or early KDE4 environment and worked, on occasion that I needed it. I recently bought a new ASUS laptop for my wife and it's been one problem after another...starting with Optimus...    So in the interests of keeping a happy wife (when the wife's happy, EVERYBODY is happy), I wiped that old ASUS and started over again. The wireless (Intel Centrino Wireless-N + WiMax 6150) was working under the old kernel. Seeing as I always run the stable branch on my wifes' computer, I installed the latest, greatest (4.9.95) stable kernel. And I could NOT make the wifi work. dmesg kept giving me the 'no suitable firmware found' error - even though iwlwifi-6050-4.ucode was available in /lib/firmware.
After trying all the solutions listed in this section, and failing to get the module loaded, I upgraded to kernel-4.16.8 and made a clean build and:
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Module Size Used by
iwldvm 139264 0
iwlwifi 159744 1 iwldvm
xhci_pci 16384 0
x86_pkg_temp_thermal 16384 0
xhci_hcd 118784 1 xhci_pci |
The relevant items I check off during kernel configuration: | Code: |
Bike ~ # grep IWL /boot/config-4.16.8
# CONFIG_IWL4965 is not set
# CONFIG_IWL3945 is not set
CONFIG_IWLWIFI=m
CONFIG_IWLDVM=m
# CONFIG_IWLMVM is not set
CONFIG_IWLWIFI_OPMODE_MODULAR=y
# CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG is not set
Bike ~ # grep FIRMWARE /boot/config-4.16.8
# CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD is not set
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="iwlwifi-6050-4.ucode"
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware"
# CONFIG_DRM_LOAD_EDID_FIRMWARE is not set
# CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID is not set
CONFIG_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP=y
# CONFIG_GOOGLE_FIRMWARE is not set
# CONFIG_TEST_FIRMWARE is not set |
I did, to cover my bases, build the external firmware into the kernel.
I don't know that the wifi is actually working yet, I'm still installing KDE stuff and prefer to use a hardwired connection for that, but at least I know that the modules are loaded!
Hopefully, this may help all y'all that have given up and are using old kernels! When I googled for answers, this was the only Gentoo thread that showed up. Others were even LESS helpful! |
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X8dcc
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Joined: 01 Nov 2022
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Location: Yes
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Sorry for bumping the thread again but I had this issue and I want to post my solution.
I had the same error on a ThinkPad x220 with an "Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300". I think the issue started after installing net-wireless/iwd. I had the iwlwifi firmware enabled in the kernel config as built-in (y), and changing it to module (m) fixed it.
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