Looking for some help with linux mint/wifi
Hello lovely and knowledgeable Icrontic people,
I'm a friend of Jackie's and she suggested that I post this here.
My SO recently built his own computer, but he's having some trouble getting the OS to activate the wireless. Anyway I thought it couldn't hurt to see if anyone here might have some suggestions as he has exhausted just about every other avenue for aid that he can think of. Thank you in advance to anyone who has any ideas!
Below is the message he gave me to share:
Hey, do you know anything about linux mint? specifically getting an Intel centrino ultimate-n 6300 to be recognized by the drivers?
Does anyone know a workaround or patch for this? I'm running on a custom built laptop with a intel centrino ultimate-n 6300 wifi card. My Mint 13 distro (i went back a gen after having the same problem with Mint 14) doesn't seem to recognize the wireless card, but running the following command: "lspci -nn | grep 0280" results in "04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 [8086:422b] (rev 3e)", so its gotta be a bug with the drivers. I've noticed this is a common problem with this wifi adapter and several ubuntu distributions, however none of the work arounds for that problem seem to fix my problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
The iwlwifi module is loaded, and the card is supposedly using it. This is the result of the lspci -v cmd:
04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 (rev 3e) Subsystem: Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 3x3 AGN Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 46 Memory at f7900000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] Capabilities: Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi Kernel modules: iwlwifi
I'm a friend of Jackie's and she suggested that I post this here.
My SO recently built his own computer, but he's having some trouble getting the OS to activate the wireless. Anyway I thought it couldn't hurt to see if anyone here might have some suggestions as he has exhausted just about every other avenue for aid that he can think of. Thank you in advance to anyone who has any ideas!
Below is the message he gave me to share:
Hey, do you know anything about linux mint? specifically getting an Intel centrino ultimate-n 6300 to be recognized by the drivers?
Does anyone know a workaround or patch for this? I'm running on a custom built laptop with a intel centrino ultimate-n 6300 wifi card. My Mint 13 distro (i went back a gen after having the same problem with Mint 14) doesn't seem to recognize the wireless card, but running the following command: "lspci -nn | grep 0280" results in "04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 [8086:422b] (rev 3e)", so its gotta be a bug with the drivers. I've noticed this is a common problem with this wifi adapter and several ubuntu distributions, however none of the work arounds for that problem seem to fix my problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
The iwlwifi module is loaded, and the card is supposedly using it. This is the result of the lspci -v cmd:
04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 (rev 3e) Subsystem: Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 3x3 AGN Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 46 Memory at f7900000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] Capabilities: Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi Kernel modules: iwlwifi
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A very precise description of the issue would be nice as well, i.e. wireless "starts" but doesn't seen anything, or wireless starts and sees but can't connect or wireless connects but drops the connection, etc.
The most common issue I saw was this:
The driver iwlwifi got a bug with the N-mode, deactivate it via:
echo "options iwlwifi 11n_disable=1" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/iwlwifi.conf
sudo modprobe -rfv iwlwifi
sudo modprobe -v iwlwifi
http://askubuntu.com/questions/109260/how-do-i-get-an-intel-ultimate-6300-n-working
Shouldn't need 3rd party drivers for Intel WiFi cards. They open-sourced their drivers long ago thus they are included in the kernel package these days. It seems the 6300 driver just happens to be rather buggy.
Make sure the BIOS isn't set to turn off the Wireless when it detects a wired connection. The OS will see it, but just won't be able to use it.
Make sure the WiFi switch is fully on (I see this at least 2x every day and I work in the IT department).
Can you tell us the make and model number of the laptop?
WiFi switches are literally the devil. They cause 100x more problems than they solve.