"Intel Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250" doesn't work

[Andreas Tobler]

--------- Original Message --------
From: Tz-Huan Huang <tzhuan at gmail.com>
To: freebsd-current at freebsd.org <freebsd-current at freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: "Intel Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250" doesn't work
Date: 07/09/11 09:40

> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 14:10, Tz-Huan Huang &lt;tzhuan at gmail.com&gt;
wrote:
> &gt; Hi,
> &gt;
> &gt; I have a lenovo X201s with a &quot;Intel Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX
6250&quot; bundled.
> &gt; The device seems recognized as iwn0 correctly but it just doesn't
work.
> &gt; The command &quot;ifconfig wlan0 up scan&quot; return immediately and
nothing showed.
> &gt;
> &gt; Is the device not supported, or do I miss something?
> &gt; Any suggestion is welcome, thanks.
> &gt;
> &gt; Here is some information:
> &gt;
> &gt; $ uname -a
> &gt; FreeBSD bud 9.0-BETA2 FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 #2: Tue Sep  6 16:50:09 CST
> &gt; 2011     root at bud:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BUD  amd64
> &gt;
> &gt; dmesg -a:
> &gt; http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~b90093/tmp/dmesg.txt
> &gt;
> &gt; rc.conf:
> &gt; http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~b90093/tmp/rc.conf
> &gt;
> &gt; kldstat -v
> &gt; http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~b90093/tmp/kldstat.txt
> 
> When loading acpi_ibm, I got more error information:
> 
> $ kldload acpi_ibm
> acpi_ibm0: &lt;IBM ThinkPad ACPI Extras&gt; on acpi0
> $ ifconfig wlan0 up
> iwn0: iwn5000_send_calibration: could not send calibration result, error
22
> iwn0: iwn_init_locked: could not initialize hardware, error 22
> 
> 
> Any suggestion? Thanks.

Maybe, is the wlan switch on? (on the left side?) I recently had such an
experience with a t60 where the switch was off. Took a while until I
realized that I can switch on the wlan....

Gruss,
Andreas