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Subject: Centrino "Advanced"-N 6235 wireless
From: "Ian FREISLICH" <ianf@clue.co.za>
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Hi

I have one of these "Advanced" controlers in my laptop.  It's up
for grabs for an interested developer after this coming week-end.
I need to de-solder the w.FL connectors to to put them on a supported
non-Intel card to get working wifi.  I will replace the on-card
connectors with u.FL.

iwn0@pci0:2:0:0:        class=0x028000 card=0x40608086 chip=0x088e8086 rev=0x24 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
    device     = 'Centrino Advanced-N 6235'
    class      = network

Contact me in private email if you're interested.

The issues are:
1.  Need the latest Intel firmware (iwlwifi-6000g2b-18.168.6.1)
    to get anything approaching connectivity.
2.  The 2.4GHz radio will absolutely not use a 20MHz channel if the
    AP will do 40MHz.
3.  40MHz channels don't work.
4.  Random disconnects every 30 minutes or so requiring a wlan0
    destroy/create to recover.

Ian

-- 
Ian Freislich