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Date:      Tue, 01 Jan 2013 21:36:46 -0800
From:      Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com>
To:        freebsd-mobile <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Firmware error with iwn on 9-stable.
Message-ID:  <1357105006.13744.17.camel@jill.exit.com>
In-Reply-To: <1357026551.13744.10.camel@jill.exit.com>
References:  <1357026551.13744.10.camel@jill.exit.com>

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On Mon, 2012-12-31 at 23:49 -0800, Frank Mayhar wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a new laptop, which has an Intel Centrino
> Ultimate-N 6300 wireless card.  I was under the impression that the
> 9-stable iwn driver fully supported this card but I've run into a
> problem.  Specifically, I'm seeing this firmware crash:
>=20
>         iwn0: iwn_intr: fatal firmware error

For the record, this appears to be the problem referred to by
"kern/163154: [iwn] fatal firmware error on 9.0-RC3."  Apparently this
still happens in 9-stable, with the same symptoms, fails with 802.11a
but not with 11g.

Unfortunately the interface still fails (with other symptoms) with 11g.
--=20
Frank Mayhar
frank@exit.com



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