Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 15:54:42 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel PCI-E 4965AGN wireless iwn(4) isn't detected on Compaq 6715s laptop - USB bus? Message-ID: <20100801135442.GA56091@slackbox.erewhon.net> In-Reply-To: <20100727092348.GA45883@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20100727092348.GA45883@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:23:49AM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> Hi
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> I've HP Compaq 6715s laptop. I'm trying
> to get wireless working. The laptop has
> Intel 4965 4965AGN wireless WiFi PCI-E card 802.11N AGN
> which is supported by iwn(4). I compiled iwn support
> into the kernel as suggested by the man page.
Did you also compile in the correct firmware module?
> However, the card doesn't appear in dmesg or
> in pciconf -lv.
Hmm. My 5100 AGN is correctly detected and used;
iwn0@pci0:14:0:0: class=3D0x028000 card=3D0x12018086 chip=3D0x42328086 rev=
=3D0x00 hdr=3D0x00
vendor =3D 'Intel Corporation'
device =3D 'Carte Intel WiFi Link 5100 AGN (Intel WiFi Link 5100)'
class =3D network
iwn0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 5100> mem 0xf2200000-0xf2201fff irq 18 at devi=
ce 0.0 on pci14
iwn0: MIMO 1T2R, MoW, address 00:22:fa:a3:b6:50
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 24Mbp=
s 36M
> The laptop has a wireless toggle button, which is supposed
> to enable/disable wireless. There is also an LED, which
> lights on when wireless is enabled, and goes off
> when wireless is off. Well, at least this is what
> should happen.
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> On boot the LED is on.
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> If I press the button to disable wireless, the LED goes
> off and in dmesg I see:
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> ugen0.2: <Broadcom Corp> at usbus0 (disconnected)
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> When I switch wireless back on again I see in dmesg:
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> ugen0.2: <Broadcom Corp> at usbus0
> Does this mean that wireless sits on USB bus?
I don't think so. I think this is some kind of management interface? I get =
the
same messages when I switch off my 5100 AGN.
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> Does this give me a clue about how to debug
> the problem further?
It puzzles me that it is not seen in the pciconf output. Could it be that t=
he
wireless is disabled in the laptop's BIOS?
Roland
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