Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 6205a

[Peter Toth]

On 04/21/11 18:10, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> On Thursday, April 21, 2011 04:29:44 Peter Toth wrote:
>   
>> 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/
>>>
>>>       
>> Just tried it, gives me this error:
>>
>> /usr/src/sys/modules/iwn/../../dev/iwn/if_iwn.c: In function 'iwn_attach':
>> /usr/src/sys/modules/iwn/../../dev/iwn/if_iwn.c:439: warning: implicit
>> declaration of function 'pci_find_cap'
>> /usr/src/sys/modules/iwn/../../dev/iwn/if_iwn.c:439: warning: nested
>> extern declaration of 'pci_find_cap'
>>     
> Yeah, sorry, there have been some changes to PCI BUS handling lately.
> Fetch again and replace pci_find_cap() with pci_find_extcap(). You
> might also want to fetch sys/contrib/iwn and sys/modules/iwnfw from
> HEAD, it includes the firmware for your card now.
>
> Thanks
>
>   
Flawless so far! The interface is not dropping connection now and no
errors in dmesg either.
Going to test further and will report back in a couple of days.

Many thanks for getting this nailed!