Intel PRO/Wireless 5100AGN support

Sam Leffler sam at freebsd.org
Fri Mar 13 09:01:15 PDT 2009


Nicolas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use my wireless card Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 5100AGN.
>
> I added to the file "/usr/src/sys/dev/iwn/if_iwn.c" the code "{ 
> 0x8086, 0x4237, "Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 5100AGN" },"
>
> After, i found on the net the file 
> "iwlwifi-5000-ucode-5.4.A.11.tar.gz" which contains the firmware code 
> "iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode".
>    I have converted with the command: "b64encode iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode 
> iwlwifi-5000-1.fw.uu > iwlwifi-5000-1.fw.uu"
> Then I changed the file "/usr/src/sys/modules/iwnfw/Makefile" to match 
> the new file "iwlwifi-5000-1.fw.uu
>
> After all modules load (driver + firmware), she was recognized as:
>
> iwn0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 5100AGN> mem 0xde000000-0xde001fff irq 16 
> at device 0.0 on pci2
> iwn0: Reg Domain: , address 00:21:6b:2b:78:04
> iwn0: iwn_read_eeprom_ht40: no entry for channel 124
> iwn0: iwn_read_eeprom_ht40: no entry for channel 132
> iwn0: iwn_read_eeprom_ht40: no entry for channel 149
> iwn0: iwn_read_eeprom_ht40: no entry for channel 157
> iwn0: [ITHREAD]
> iwn0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
> iwn0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 
> 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
> iwn0: 11ng MCS: 15Mbps 30Mbps 45Mbps 60Mbps 90Mbps 120Mbps 135Mbps 
> 150Mbps 30Mbps 60Mbps 90Mbps 120Mbps 180Mbps 240Mbps 270Mbps 300Mbps
>
> But when i try to connect to the web, i have this message:
>
> iwn0: iwn_transfer_firmware: invalid firmware header, main 
> [128504,49152], init [118176,49152] boot 0
> iwn0: iwn_init_locked: could not load firmware, error 22
>
> Is this a problem of conversion ?
> The conversion input command is bad ?
>
Parts >4965 require driver mods.  Noone has stepped up to work on it.

    Sam



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