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intel network controller

#1 Post by vilbjorg »

Hello
I have difficulties getting wifi to work on a fresh install of Jessie, xfce (need Jessie for a graphics environment which unfortunately is not updated for Stretch) Neither Wicd nor Connman can see any networks. I have a dual install on the computer, the other system is AVLinux Stretch, here wifi works fine.

any hints very welcome, thank you in advance
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connmanctl> scan wifi
Error /net/connman/technology/wifi: No carrier

on Jessie where wifi is not working:
Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6235 (rev 24)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6235 AGN
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 49
Memory at f7900000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [d0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [e0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number c4-85-08-ff-ff-c9-18-64
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi

On AVLinux Stretch, wifi is working fine:
......
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
Kernel modules: iwlwifi

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Re: intel network controller

#2 Post by 4D696B65 »

Is firmware-iwlwifi installed?
https://wiki.debian.org/iwlwifi

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#3 Post by vilbjorg »

yes I installed firmware-iwlwifi, that it why I am not sure what to do next, the printout from 'lspci -v' shows that that the driver is there (as far as I understand)

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#4 Post by steve_v »

What's the state of the RF killswitch (rfkill list)?
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#5 Post by vilbjorg »

I get this:
v# rfkill list all
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no

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#6 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

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# rfkill unblock all
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#7 Post by vilbjorg »

after
'rfkill unblock all'
then Connmanctl can see the networks. (Wicd still cannot see any networks) At this point I did not manage to connect to a network , I get some error from Connmanctl, but perhaps that is a matter of me reading the manual tomorrow.
Still could it be that there is some permission setting some where which prevents Wicd to see networks? .. will try to look at that. I have to run Connmanctl as root

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#8 Post by 4D696B65 »

In Wicd, did you enter the adapter name? eg wlan0 , wls1 and so on.

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#9 Post by stevepusser »

I really doubt that the 3.16 kernel has driver support for that recent hardware. A minimal websearch should confirm or deny this. The solution is to install and use the newer kernel and firmware from jessie-backports.

What desktop is forcing you to use Jessie, by the way?
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#10 Post by 4D696B65 »

3.16 supports

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PCI: 8086:088E Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6235
PCI: 8086:088F Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6235
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lspci -nn | grep -i network

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#11 Post by vilbjorg »

Hi , thanks a lot for all the replies, I managed to connect using connmanctl, which is fine enough for now. - The hardware is not that new, had both Wheezy and Jessie running with wifi before on this computer, so it must be some settings on this fresh install.... The reason for me at the moment to make this dual install of Jessie is to make some video work in a wrapper for OpenGL called 'OpenFrameWorks', they did not update this for Stretch, I believe the main problem is the version of POCO which they use.

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