From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 20 06:16:55 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9A7D106564A for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:16:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bschmidt@techwires.net) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 860228FC08 for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:16:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm11 with SMTP id 11so362428fxm.13 for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 23:16:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.17.140 with SMTP id s12mr1691249faa.49.1303280214605; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 23:16:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jessie.localnet (p5B2ECD24.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [91.46.205.36]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 21sm171653fav.41.2011.04.19.23.16.52 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 19 Apr 2011 23:16:53 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Bernhard Schmidt From: Bernhard Schmidt To: Peter Toth Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 08:15:33 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.32-30-generic; KDE/4.4.5; i686; ; ) References: <4DAE2133.20108@snap.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <4DAE2133.20108@snap.net.nz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201104200815.58433.bschmidt@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 6205a X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: bschmidt@freebsd.org List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:16:56 -0000 On Wednesday, April 20, 2011 01:56:35 Peter Toth wrote: > Hi there, > > I have a company laptop which comes with the advanced centrino intel > chipset see bellow. > > The iwn driver requested the iwn6005fw firmware module which is not > available in stock FreeBSD 8.2. I've grabbed the firmware out of OpenBSD > repository and converted it to a proper loadable module. > > The interface is working OK for about 2 minutes (with WPA2) and then it > bounces UP and DOWN - if I reload wpasupplicant it will associate again > and works for 2 minutes then it will drop again. > > Anyone got this chipset working somehow? - seems like it is supported in > OpenBSD. > > Details here: > iwn0: mem 0xd4000000-0xd4001fff irq 19 at > device 0.0 on pci37 > iwn0: MIMO 2T2R, MoW, address a0:88:b4:14:77:20 > 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 > 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps Can you pull the driver files from HEAD[1] rebuild the module and try again? I've committed a few changes lately which fixes the calibration on at least the 6230(6005b). [1] http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/head/sys/dev/iwn/ -- Bernhard