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

Tz-Huan Huang tzhuan at gmail.com
Wed Sep 7 13:12:14 UTC 2011


On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 20:34, Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:10, Kevin Lo <kevlo at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> Please try attached patch. It seems like OpenBSD added support
>> for 6205, but I'm not sure if it works for 6250.

Okay, I am re-building the kernel now,
will report here if any news.

> Worth a try, but I don't think it will make a difference. I had that
> code once (it should even be visible on the svn history) but removed
> it because it isn't required, the 6005 series devices work very well
> without it (I'm using a 6230 (6000g2b) daily) without issues. What is
> import though is which calibration results are sent to the runtime
> firmware, I suspect there might be an issue in
> iwn5000_rx_calib_results() around IWN5000_PHY_CALIB_DC.
>
> I remember that someone reported the 6250 devices working once, it
> might be worth going over the last revisions (there where some
> calibration related changes) and figure out which one broke it.

Yes, this device works fine according to this post:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=19839

I have scanned the source but it seems that the iwn sources changed a lot...

Thanks,
Tz-Huan


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