Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 08:15:33 +0200 From: Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@freebsd.org> To: Peter Toth <freebsd@snap.net.nz> Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 6205a Message-ID: <201104200815.58433.bschmidt@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4DAE2133.20108@snap.net.nz> References: <4DAE2133.20108@snap.net.nz>
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On Wednesday, April 20, 2011 01:56:35 Peter Toth wrote: > Hi there, > > I have a company laptop which comes with the advanced centrino intel > chipset see bellow. > > The iwn driver requested the iwn6005fw firmware module which is not > available in stock FreeBSD 8.2. I've grabbed the firmware out of OpenBSD > repository and converted it to a proper loadable module. > > The interface is working OK for about 2 minutes (with WPA2) and then it > bounces UP and DOWN - if I reload wpasupplicant it will associate again > and works for 2 minutes then it will drop again. > > Anyone got this chipset working somehow? - seems like it is supported in > OpenBSD. > > Details here: > iwn0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 6205a> mem 0xd4000000-0xd4001fff irq 19 at > device 0.0 on pci37 > iwn0: MIMO 2T2R, MoW, address a0:88:b4:14:77:20 > iwn0: [ITHREAD] > iwn0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps > iwn0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps > iwn0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps > 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps Can you pull the driver files from HEAD[1] rebuild the module and try again? I've committed a few changes lately which fixes the calibration on at least the 6230(6005b). [1] http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/head/sys/dev/iwn/ -- Bernhard
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