wifi intel 5100agn su Fedora 10

[linuxuser]

Salve a tutti.

Sul pc desktop a casa ho installato Ubuntu. Sul notebook che uso a lavoro sono dovuto passare da Ubuntu a Fedora perché si usano software IBM certificati solo per RedHat.

Il notebook che uso a lavoro è un HP dv5-1020el.
http://www.shoppydoo.it/prezzo-notebook-hp_pavilion_dv5_1020el_entertainment.html

Il problema è che, sul notebook, Ubuntu mi rileva correttamente la scheda wireless, mentre Fedora 10 non la rileva.

Questo sono gli output di comandi vari:


[root@develope04 ~]# uname -r
2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686

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[root@develope04 ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Cantiga Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cantiga PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) Thermal Subsystem (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 06e8 (rev a1)
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Device 4237
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
06:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): JMicron Technologies, Inc. Device 2380
06:00.1 System peripheral: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Device 2382
06:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Device 2381
06:00.3 System peripheral: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Device 2383
06:00.4 System peripheral: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Device 2384

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[root@develope04 ~]# dmesg | grep iw
iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was 0x100002, writing 0x100006)
firmware: requesting iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode
iwlagn: iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
iwlagn: Could not read microcode: -2
iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A disabled

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Ho notato che cerca di caricare il driver della scheda wireless Intel 5100agn.
Effettivamente Ubuntu 8.10 contiene in /lib/firmware il driver 'iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode' mentre Fedora 10 non lo ha.

Allora ho scaricato i driver per la serie 5000 da intellinuxwireless.org:

http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/?n=downloads&p=iwlwifi

Ho scompattato il file *.tar.gz e ho copiato il contenuto nella nella cartella /lib/firmaware di Fedora 10.
Funziona, ma leggendo altri forum mi sembra di capire che questo non è il modo corretto per procedere.
Forse è meglio aggiungere un pacchetto, oppure scaricare un kernel già con la modifica adatta ?

[Martyn]

uhmmmmmmm, non capisco quale sia il problema, se funziona, "metodo" corretto o no, non lo trovo un problema