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Date:      Mon, 8 Oct 2012 09:44:26 -0700
From:      Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com>
To:        Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What driver should I use for 'intel centrino wireless-N 2200 BGN' ?
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On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Denise H. G. <darcsis@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I tried ipw, iwn, and iwi, but ended up with no luck. What's more, it
>> seems that the wireless adapter has not been even detected by the
>> system. I ran 'pciconf -l' and got this line which seems to be my
>> wireless adapter:
>>
>> none3@pci0:3:0:0:       class=0x028000 card=0x42228086 chip=0x08918086
>> rev=0xc4 hdr=0x00
>>
>> Is there a driver for that under FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>
> Man page for iwi says
> The iwi driver provides support for Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2915ABG
>
> Do you have legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1  in loader.conf ?
>
> Perhaps you need to check if the device id is listed in the source code?

Yes. Some vendors (e.g. Lenovo, HP) have private PCIIDs on their
cards, so they may not be in the source. Adding them is trivial, but,
should this be the issue, please open a PR to have it added to the
source in SVN.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com



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