f16 wireless problem on asus laptop

sdicker8 · #1 28th February 2012, 03:18 AM

[UPDATED] I have an asus u56e-bbl6 with an intel centrino wireless-n + wimax 6150 (rev 67) network controller. I installed 64-bit f16 using the live cd which was the 3.1.0-7 kernel. Wireless did not work but i finally resolved this problem with modprobe iwlagn bt_coex_active=0. Somehow (i guess a security update), the 3.2.7-1 kernel got installed. Wireless did not work using this kernel but i was able to resolve this with modprobe iwlwifi bt_coex_active=0. I then went ahead and did a full update to the system (~200 MB). Now wireless does not work with either kernel and i have no clue how to fix it. I've waited a couple of days to see if there were any further updates which might fix this but there have not been any.

I would really appreciate some help - thanks in advance -

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I got frustrated and completely reinstalled using the live CD and then did a complete update. The update installed the 3.2.7-1 kernel. I have had no luck getting the wireless to connect. Network manager does show that i can enable/disable wireless with the function key. Below is the output of some of lspci, rfkill, iwconfig and some of dmesg. I am currently using the 3.2.7 kernel with bt_coex_active=0. Please let me know if you have any ideas - i'm a little surprised that i have not been able to solve this by searching the web or with the help from someone on this forum. Thanks -

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N + WiMAX 6150 [8086:0885] (rev 67)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N + WiMAX 6150 BGN [8086:1305]
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
Kernel modules: iwlwifi

04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit Ethernet [1969:1083] (rev c0)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:1851]
Kernel driver in use: atl1c
Kernel modules: atl1c

0: asus-wlan: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: asus-wimax: WiMAX
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=15 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off

...
[ 18.663138] Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, in-tree:
[ 18.663140] Copyright(c) 2003-2011 Intel Corporation
[ 18.663176] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 18.663185] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 18.663207] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: pci_resource_len = 0x00002000
[ 18.663208] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: pci_resource_base = ffffc900057f8000
[ 18.663210] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: HW Revision ID = 0x67
[ 18.663297] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: irq 51 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 18.663331] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG disabled
[ 18.663332] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUGFS disabled
[ 18.663333] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEVICE_TRACING disabled
[ 18.663335] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEVICE_TESTMODE disabled
[ 18.663336] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_P2P disabled
[ 18.663341] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Centrino(R) Wireless-N + WiMAX 6150 BGN, REV=0x84
[ 18.663404] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: L1 Disabled; Enabling L0S
[ 18.674146] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: device EEPROM VER=0x557, CALIB=0x6
[ 18.674148] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Device SKU: 0x150
[ 18.674149] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Valid Tx ant: 0x1, Valid Rx ant: 0x3
[ 18.674167] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 0 802.11a channels
[ 18.676610] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: loaded firmware version 41.28.5.1 build 33926
[ 18.676774] Registered led device: phy0-led
[ 18.680616] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-agn-rs'
[ 18.684955] cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: US
[ 18.687044] cfg80211: Regulatory domain changed to country: US
[ 18.687046] cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
[ 18.687048] cfg80211: (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2700 mBm)
[ 18.687050] cfg80211: (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 1700 mBm)
[ 18.687052] cfg80211: (5250000 KHz - 5330000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[ 18.687054] cfg80211: (5490000 KHz - 5600000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[ 18.687055] cfg80211: (5650000 KHz - 5710000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[ 18.687057] cfg80211: (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 3000 mBm)
...

[ 22.060293] NetworkManager[951]: ifcfg-rh: parsing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-NETGEAR ...
[ 22.060306] NetworkManager[951]: NetworkManager[951]: ifcfg-rh: parsing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-NETGEAR ...
[ 22.061346] NetworkManager[951]: ifcfg-rh: read connection 'NETGEAR'
[ 22.061362] NetworkManager[951]: NetworkManager[951]: ifcfg-rh: read connection 'NETGEAR'
[ 22.061369] NetworkManager[951]: ifcfg-rh: parsing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo ...
[ 22.061375] NetworkManager[951]: NetworkManager[951]: ifcfg-rh: parsing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo ...
[ 22.061412] NetworkManager[951]: ifcfg-rh: parsing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-Netgear ...
[ 22.061426] NetworkManager[951]: NetworkManager[951]: ifcfg-rh: parsing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-Netgear ...
[ 22.062008] NetworkManager[951]: ifcfg-rh: read connection 'Netgear'
[ 22.062015] NetworkManager[951]: NetworkManager[951]: ifcfg-rh: read connection 'Netgear'
[ 22.062899] NetworkManager[951]: <info> trying to start the modem manager...
[ 22.062914] NetworkManager[951]: NetworkManager[951]: <info> trying to start the modem manager...
[ 22.063235] NetworkManager[951]: <info> monitoring kernel firmware directory '/lib/firmware'.
[ 22.063251] dbus[991]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.ModemManager' (using servicehelper)
[ 22.070669] NetworkManager[951]: NetworkManager[951]: <info> monitoring kernel firmware directory '/lib/firmware'.
[ 22.070677] dbus-daemon[991]: dbus[991]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.ModemManager' (using servicehelper)
[ 22.070684] NetworkManager[951]: NetworkManager[951]: <info> found WiFi radio killswitch rfkill2 (at /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:02:00.0/ieee80211/phy0/rfkill2) (driver (unknown))
[ 22.070691] NetworkManager[951]: <info> found WiFi radio killswitch rfkill2 (at /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:02:00.0/ieee80211/phy0/rfkill2) (driver (unknown))
[ 22.070698] NetworkManager[951]: NetworkManager[951]: <info> found WiFi radio killswitch rfkill0 (at /sys/devices/platform/asus-nb-wmi/rfkill/rfkill0) (driver asus-nb-wmi)
[ 22.070704] NetworkManager[951]: <info> found WiFi radio killswitch rfkill0 (at /sys/devices/platform/asus-nb-wmi/rfkill/rfkill0) (driver asus-nb-wmi)
[ 22.070710] NetworkManager[951]: NetworkManager[951]: <info> found WiMAX radio killswitch rfkill1 (at /sys/devices/platform/asus-nb-wmi/rfkill/rfkill1) (driver asus-nb-wmi)
[ 22.070716] NetworkManager[951]: <info> found WiMAX radio killswitch rfkill1 (at /sys/devices/platform/asus-nb-wmi/rfkill/rfkill1) (driver asus-nb-wmi)
...
[ 22.162958] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: L1 Disabled; Enabling L0S
[ 22.163110] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Radio type=0x1-0x2-0x0
[ 22.314321] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: L1 Disabled; Enabling L0S
[ 22.314473] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Radio type=0x1-0x2-0x0
[ 22.381617] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 22.394243] 8021q: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8
[ 22.396458] atl1c 0000:04:00.0: irq 53 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 22.396552] atl1c 0000:04:00.0: atl1c: p5p1 NIC Link is Up<100 Mbps Full Duplex>
[ 32.523825] p5p1: no IPv6 routers present
[ 38.231236] fuse init (API version 7.17)
[ 38.239205] SELinux: initialized (dev fusectl, type fusectl), uses genfs_contexts
[ 38.263330] SELinux: initialized (dev fuse, type fuse), uses genfs_contexts
[ 40.795435] CPU1: Package power limit notification (total events = 1)
[ 40.795439] CPU2: Package power limit notification (total events = 1)
[ 40.795443] CPU3: Package power limit notification (total events = 1)
[ 40.795446] CPU0: Package power limit notification (total events = 1)
[ 40.807404] CPU2: Package power limit normal
[ 40.807408] CPU1: Package power limit normal
[ 40.807411] CPU3: Package power limit normal
[ 40.807413] CPU0: Package power limit normal
[ 44.501641] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 45.190418] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver

buddhistpalm · #2 6th March 2012, 08:09 AM

I have the same laptop model as yourself, and I have had the same problem. I had initially been running F16 with XFCE, and tried installing from live LXDE, which I'm currently using. I can still use wireless, but only by chosing to go with the 3.1 kernel that's still in the GRUB boot menu. In that situation, the iwl.conf fix still works. Oddly enough, 3.2.7-1 worked with the fix when I was using XFCE.

I'm still a relative Linux newb, but some poking around has found similar issues with Debian and updating to kernel 3.2.7-1. And, being a newb, it still takes me a while to figure out what's going on. Until someone smarter comes along, I'll be stuck with the old kernel.

buddhistpalm · #3 29th March 2012, 06:56 PM

Here's what I figured out: I ran lspci -v to see what driver was being used for wireless. At least with kernel 3.2.9-2, the kernel driver for wireless was iwlwifi, whereas before the kernel was using iwlagn. I simply adjusted etc/modprobe.d/iwl.conf to read: options iwlwifi bt_coex_active=0, changing iwlagn to iwlwifi. Reboot. Wireless works.