What driver should I use for 'intel centrino wireless-N 2200 BGN' ?

Denise H. G. darcsis at gmail.com
Tue Oct 9 13:23:58 UTC 2012


On 2012/10/09 at 00:44, Kevin Oberman <kob6558 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Andreas Nilsson <andrnils at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Denise H. G. <darcsis at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi list,
>>> 
>>> I tried ipw, iwn, and iwi, but ended up with no luck. What's more, it
>>> seems that the wireless adapter has not been even detected by the
>>> system. I ran 'pciconf -l' and got this line which seems to be my
>>> wireless adapter:
>>> 
>>> none3 at 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?
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> 
>> 
>> Man page for iwi says
>> The iwi driver provides support for Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2915ABG
>> 
>> Do you have legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1  in loader.conf ?
>> 
>> Perhaps you need to check if the device id is listed in the source code?
> 
> Yes. Some vendors (e.g. Lenovo, HP) have private PCIIDs on their
> cards, so they may not be in the source. Adding them is trivial, but,
> should this be the issue, please open a PR to have it added to the
> source in SVN.

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.

Thanks!

> -- 
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
> E-mail: kob6558 at gmail.com
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