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Driver for Intel Centrino Wireless N-2200

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• Started 11 years ago by Ceel
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   Ceel
   

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   My lifebook has an Intel Centrino Wireless N-2200 card. I searched a driver for it but I didn't find one for linux.
   Am I condemned to use Windows and internet explorer to be connected when I'm in an hotel ?

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   mojo
   

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   Identify the wifi adapter chipset vendor and product id.

   Open terminal,type the command applicable to the adapter form factor,hit Enter:
   For Built-in wireless(pci,mini-pci),32-bit pc card(pcmcia,cardbus,expresscard)
   lspci -nn
   For USB wireless adapter
   lsusb

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   Ceel
   

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   Thanks mojo,

   Here is the output of lspci -nn :

   lscpi -nn
   00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:0104] (rev 09)
   00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:0116] (rev 09)
   00:14.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1e31] (rev 04)
   00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1e3a] (rev 04)
   00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1503] (rev 04)
   00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1e2d] (rev 04)
   00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1e20] (rev 04)
   00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1e10] (rev c4)
   00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1e14] (rev c4)
   00:1c.7 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1e1e] (rev c4)
   00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1e26] (rev 04)
   00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1e59] (rev 04)
   00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1e03] (rev 04)
   00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1e22] (rev 04)
   0a:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:0890] (rev c4) <<<
   0b:00.0 Class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:5229] (rev 01)

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   mojo
   

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   Slitaz-4.0
   Linux slitaz 2.6.37-slitaz #2 SMP Wed Mar 7 10:36:39 CET 2012 i686 GNU/Linux

   Compat-wireless are some of the latest wireless drivers included in the newest kernel adapted to compile on the older 2.6 kernel.
   All commands as root in terminal:

   tazpkg -gi slitaz-toolchain
   tazpkg -gi linux-source
   get-linux-source

   wget http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless.tar.bz2
   tar jxvf compat-wireless.tar.bz2
   cd into the extracted folder compat-wireless-xxxx-xx-xx
   The folder name is appended with download date.
   cd compat-wireless-2012-11-07
   ./scripts/driver-select iwlwifi
   make
   make install
   Install all(6) firmware-iwlwifi tazpkgs
   modprobe iwlwifi
   Applications/System Tools/Wifi configuration

   Reference: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   Ceel
   

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   Hey Mojo,

   I think you are a Magician. Just add at your procedure
   # tazpkg -gi bash
   because requested and is not a dependence of glibc-dev anymore as it was with SliTaz 3.0

   But unfortunately still not working :
   make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.37-slitaz/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
   make: *** [modules] Error 2
   Did I forget something ?

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   mojo
   

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   The build environment is incomplete
   Verify linux source is installed in /usr/src/linux-2.6.37
   du -sh /usr/src
   513.8M /usr/src

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   Ceel
   

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   # du -sh /usr/src
   328.0K /usr/src

   I see. My problem is that get-linux-source downloads linux-2.6.37.tar.bz2 in /home/slitaz/4.0 folder and I use a liveUSB with a very small capacity. SliTaz 3.0 loaded linux-2.6.30.6.tar.bz2 in /usr/src so I didn't have any problem.
   Well, I'm going to try to download the file on my HD and to untar it manually at the right place.

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   Ceel
   

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   Found a simpler way. I've modified /etc/slitaz/slitaz.conf as follow:
   in COMMON DIRECTORIES section

   ########################
   # COMMON DIRECTORIES
   ########################

   .../...

   # Slitaz directory.
   SLITAZ_DIR="/home/slitaz" >>> SLITAZ_DIR="/usr/slitaz"

   all seems fine now till:
   # make install

   make -C /lib/modules/2.6.37-slitaz/build M=/media/disk/compat-wireless-2012-11-07 modules
   make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.37'

   WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-2.6.37/Module.symvers
   is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions.

   CC [M] /media/disk/compat-wireless-2012-11-07/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.o
   /media/disk/compat-wireless-2012-11-07/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c: In function ‘i915_drm_freeze’:
   /media/disk/compat-wireless-2012-11-07/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c:492:2: error: implicit declaration of function ‘console_lock’
   /media/disk/compat-wireless-2012-11-07/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c:494:2: error: implicit declaration of function ‘console_unlock’
   make[4]: *** [/media/disk/compat-wireless-2012-11-07/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.o] Error 1
   make[3]: *** [/media/disk/compat-wireless-2012-11-07/drivers/gpu/drm/i915] Error 2
   make[2]: *** [/media/disk/compat-wireless-2012-11-07/drivers/gpu/drm] Error 2
   make[1]: *** [_module_/media/disk/compat-wireless-2012-11-07] Error 2
   make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.37'
   make: *** [modules] Error 2

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   mojo
   

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   Why is make trying to compile i915 module?
   There is no compat-wireless-xxxx-xx-xx/driver/gpu/drm/i915 directory path
   Your problems are above my pay grade ;)

   Posted 11 years ago #
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    Ceel
    

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    I tried again tonight. All went fine this time.
    Probably I've made a mistake or missed something last night.

    But, no chance. SliTaz still does not see my wireless card.

    Posted 11 years ago #
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    Ceel
    

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    For information,

    Driver for Intel Centrino Wireless N 2200 is available on Intel download center at
    http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=iwlwifi-2000-ucode-18.168.6.1.tgz

    Thanks again mojo for your help.

    Posted 11 years ago #

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