From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 11 01:23:56 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1102225 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 01:23:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darcsis@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pa0-f54.google.com (mail-pa0-f54.google.com [209.85.220.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A844A8FC0C for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 01:23:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pa0-f54.google.com with SMTP id bi1so1322835pad.13 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 18:23:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:references:user-agent:x-envelope-to :mail-followup-to:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; bh=Pi2w09mCM16cHLBoNedjQE8uc+Ca7SlFSQV6rnspfyQ=; b=E23wvadANjeh4qBG6MkzxTrk7o6JI6o+F4jKgGY/Uy/pxe3kg3+hubluoHn9GeHM9T G66MIu1oapzsyTBZFKgllZE9CPO14GrX3GSGwnLOGpPLAi4BVXm5R0hqtbNj4fsspbEs bPffk+InZMizeX2jUR3XAWVARC3MSHClo8zZqFLXR9Z4glDfuX4bbGNCV75wloyMMTMq 44GHOs++hkWS7Z0RB2V0UkT8KC3VzCthL2/750KxGvRb2ZI1cyoMbKNmSkl9PAXlhmN6 PxDW42pVrQl8CyHUf8aLGWxpbTsq/zz45RGJNiJJr1ugaG6glBRN7n2RWvroU0HNeZbL 3mjA== Received: by 10.68.218.101 with SMTP id pf5mr78909857pbc.60.1349918636105; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 18:23:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([125.34.64.49]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id kr4sm1828569pbc.76.2012.10.10.18.23.50 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 10 Oct 2012 18:23:54 -0700 (PDT) From: darcsis@gmail.com (Denise H. G.) To: Bernhard Schmidt Subject: Re: What driver should I use for 'intel centrino wireless-N 2200 BGN'? In-Reply-To: <201210101954.49000.bschmidt@techwires.net> (Bernhard Schmidt's message of "Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:54:48 +0200") References: <86ehl96o4i.fsf@venux.xbsd.name> <86txu277vn.fsf@venux.xbsd.name> <201210101954.49000.bschmidt@techwires.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (berkeley-unix) X-Envelope-To: bschmidt@techwires.net Mail-Followup-To: Bernhard Schmidt , freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Kevin Oberman , Andreas Nilsson Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 09:23:45 +0800 Message-ID: <86sj9l3iou.fsf@venux.xbsd.name> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Andreas Nilsson , Kevin Oberman X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 01:23:56 -0000 On 2012/10/11 at 01:54, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: > > On Wednesday 10 October 2012 15:51:24 Denise H. G. wrote: >> >>>>> 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? > > No, not yet. I'm having a hard figuring out the new firmware API for > those new devices. Working on it.. > >> >> I tried to add some device ids into the source code of the drivers, but >> >> with no luck. Maybe I am doing it the wrong way. >> > >> > The card ID in the code is 4220 and yours has is 4222. Edit >> > /sys/dev/iwi/if_iwi.c and add: >> > { 0x8086, 0x4222, "Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG" }, >> > after line 123. > > Note the tiny difference in here ;) > > Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG > vs. > Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2200 BGN > > There are like 10 years in between. :) > > Just to clarify, the 0x4222 is for iwn(4), adding the IDs there is the > first step, followed by a new firmware module and some glue code. > > I already thought about adding just the firmware but not the IDs yet, > for others to tinker with. Issue is that this would generate > regressions with already working cards, eg. 6230. So, eventually.. > just not yet. > Thanks for clarifying! hope it would not be too long before it works! > -- > Bernhard >