357579 – sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.37-r1 - iwl6000 seems not working

Bug 357579 - sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.37-r1 - iwl6000 seems not working

Summary: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.37-r1 - iwl6000 seems not working

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	AMD64 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers

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Reported:	2011-03-05 21:48 UTC by Alex Marcat
Modified:	2011-03-17 12:06 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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dmesg \| grep iw (dmesg,1.32 KB, text/plain) 2011-03-05 21:49 UTC, Alex Marcat	Details
lspci -v (lspci,4.61 KB, text/plain) 2011-03-05 21:52 UTC, Alex Marcat	Details
lspci -v (lspci,11.28 KB, text/html) 2011-03-05 21:54 UTC, Alex Marcat	Details
lspci -v (i hope it's the correct one) (lspci,11.28 KB, text/plain) 2011-03-05 21:57 UTC, Alex Marcat	Details
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Description Alex Marcat 2011-03-05 21:48:55 UTC

My wifi does not work: I tried using wicd, iwconfig and wpa_supplicant, but none of them works. iwconfig says that my wlan0 has no wireless extensions (but it does); wicd does not find any network.

I'm almost sure the kernel .config is correct, and I emerged the net-wireless/iwl6000-ucode too.

I attach the results of

dmesg | grep iw

lspci -v

(sorry for my very bad english)

Comment 1 Alex Marcat 2011-03-05 21:49:35 UTC

Created attachment 264867 [details]
dmesg | grep iw

Comment 2 Alex Marcat 2011-03-05 21:52:40 UTC

Created attachment 264871 [details]
lspci -v

Comment 3 Alex Marcat 2011-03-05 21:54:37 UTC

Created attachment 264873 [details]
lspci -v

sorry, the previuos attachment was wrong ;)

Comment 4 Alex Marcat 2011-03-05 21:57:24 UTC

Created attachment 264877 [details]
lspci -v (i hope it's the correct one)

Comment 5 Michael Weber (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-03-05 22:25:14 UTC

please add the kernel source package and version you use.
Something like sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.37-r1, thanks.

Comment 6 Alex Marcat 2011-03-05 22:30:18 UTC

(In reply to comment #5)
> please add the kernel source package and version you use.
> Something like sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.37-r1, thanks.
> 

I use sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.37-r1

Comment 7 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-03-09 14:46:35 UTC

Is net-wireless/iwl6000-ucode installed?

Comment 8 Alex Marcat 2011-03-09 15:51:24 UTC

of course yes

Comment 9 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn gentoo-dev

2011-03-14 12:31:16 UTC

mac80211/nl80211 drivers do not export wireless extension controls by default. Either use net-wireless/iw or if you must stay with wireless-tools for some reason, enable the legacy wireless extension compatibility CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT in your kernel.

Comment 10 tman 2011-03-14 18:17:27 UTC

try to turn of RFKILL in the kernel config. i have solve this problem so on my box

Comment 11 Alex Marcat 2011-03-16 19:51:31 UTC

(In reply to comment #10)
> try to turn of RFKILL in the kernel config. i have solve this problem so on my
> box

My rfkill looks like working (at least leds, which I control trhough /sys/class/rfkill file).

By the way I'll try both to disable rfkill and the legacy driver (but net-wireless/iw* shouldn't be enough?)

Comment 12 Mike Pagano gentoo-dev

2011-03-17 10:38:39 UTC

Last working kernel? Can you test with the latest kernel, gentoo-sources-2.6.38?

Comment 13 Alex Marcat 2011-03-17 12:06:10 UTC

After the upgrade to 2.6.38 it looks like working. Thank you all for help