Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 6205a

[Bernhard Schmidt]

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/

-- 
Bernhard