intel 6200 wirelss card- driver installation help

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Originally Posted by haidcar

i have a sony vaio laptop and it has the intel 6200 wireless card. backtrack 4 doesn't not see it if i pit airmon-ng nothing shows up i tried ifconfig wlan0 up. no luck then i found out drivers for my card i downloaded the drivers. but i dont know how to install them this is what i get:

root@bt:~# cd iwlwifi-6000-ucode-9.221.4.1

root@bt:~/iwlwifi-6000-ucode-9.221.4.1# install
install: missing file operand
Try `install --help' for more information.

root@bt:~/iwlwifi-6000-ucode-9.221.4.1# make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

root@bt:~/iwlwifi-6000-ucode-9.221.4.1# sudo make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

root@bt:~/iwlwifi-6000-ucode-9.221.4.1# sudo install
install: missing file operand
Try `install --help' for more information.

i spent long time trying to slove this problem with no luck

Hi, the solution is simple
there's no makefile there
simply copy (as root) the binary file to your firmware directory
type following commands
>cd iwlwifi-6000-ucode-9.221.4.1
>cp iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode /lib/firmware/

and then type
>ifconfig wlan0 up
your wifi-card is now turned-on

peace