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Subject: Re: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 6205a
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On 04/20/11 18:15, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> 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: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 6205a> 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/
>
I can confirm now after a few days of active usage - all is working as
expected. No errors and no link drops.