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

Tz-Huan Huang tzhuan at gmail.com
Wed Sep 7 08:00:50 UTC 2011


On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 15:52, Andreas Tobler <andreast-list at fgznet.ch> wrote:
> --------- Original Message --------
> From: Tz-Huan Huang <tzhuan at gmail.com>
> To: freebsd-current at freebsd.org <freebsd-current at freebsd.org>
> Subject: Re: "Intel Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250" doesn't work
> Date: 07/09/11 09:40
>
>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 14:10, Tz-Huan Huang &lt;tzhuan at gmail.com&gt;
> wrote:
>> &gt; Hi,
>> &gt;
>> &gt; I have a lenovo X201s with a &quot;Intel Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX
> 6250&quot; bundled.
>> &gt; The device seems recognized as iwn0 correctly but it just doesn't
> work.
>> &gt; The command &quot;ifconfig wlan0 up scan&quot; return immediately and
> nothing showed.
>> &gt;
>> &gt; Is the device not supported, or do I miss something?
>> &gt; Any suggestion is welcome, thanks.
>> &gt;
>> &gt; Here is some information:
>> &gt;
>> &gt; $ uname -a
>> &gt; FreeBSD bud 9.0-BETA2 FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 #2: Tue Sep  6 16:50:09 CST
>> &gt; 2011     root at bud:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BUD  amd64
>> &gt;
>> &gt; dmesg -a:
>> &gt; http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~b90093/tmp/dmesg.txt
>> &gt;
>> &gt; rc.conf:
>> &gt; http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~b90093/tmp/rc.conf
>> &gt;
>> &gt; kldstat -v
>> &gt; http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~b90093/tmp/kldstat.txt
>>
>> When loading acpi_ibm, I got more error information:
>>
>> $ kldload acpi_ibm
>> acpi_ibm0: &lt;IBM ThinkPad ACPI Extras&gt; on acpi0
>> $ ifconfig wlan0 up
>> iwn0: iwn5000_send_calibration: could not send calibration result, error
> 22
>> iwn0: iwn_init_locked: could not initialize hardware, error 22
>>
>>
>> Any suggestion? Thanks.
>
> Maybe, is the wlan switch on? (on the left side?) I recently had such an
> experience with a t60 where the switch was off. Took a while until I
> realized that I can switch on the wlan....

I have dual boot on this machine (FreeBSD and Win7) and the wlan works
on Win7. I don't touch the switch so that I'm pretty sure that the
switch is on. :-)
Also, I have checked the dev.acpi_ibm.0.wlan and the value is 1.

Thanks,
Tz-Huan


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