Loading latest firmware iwlwifi-6000

Question

I just installed 11.10 on Dell XPS 15z. Somebody know why kernel does not load the latest firmware for wifi Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6230.

$ modinfo iwlagn |grep iwlwifi-6000

firmware:       iwlwifi-6000g2b-5.ucode
firmware:       iwlwifi-6000g2a-5.ucode
firmware:       iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode

In package linux-firmware there is latest version (iwlwifi-6000g2b-6.ucode)

$ dpkg -L linux-firmware | grep iwlwifi-6000

/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode
/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6000g2a-5.ucode
/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6000g2b-5.ucode
**/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6000g2b-6.ucode**

Solution

I did a test with this issue and found following:

• rename firmware usal loaded:

  mv /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode_orig
  mv /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6000g2b-6.ucode /lib/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode
  

• unload/load module

  sudo modprobe -r iwlwifi
  sudo modprobe -v  iwlwifi
  

• Look what firmware loaded was found:

  dmesg | grep iwl | grep firm
  

  [ 4171.852769] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Driver unable to support your firmware API. Driver supports v4, firmware is v6.

Comments

[grzeh]

In 12.04 it works correct: $ modinfo iwlwifi |grep iwlwifi-6000 firmware: iwlwifi-6000g2b-6.ucode firmware: iwlwifi-6000g2a-5.ucode firmware: iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode

[grzeh]

Thank you for answer. I have not module "iwlwifi", so I have used "sudo modprobe -r/-v iwlagn". But I still have massage "[ 2789.707813] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: loaded firmware version 17.168.5.1 build 33993".