iwn(4) in -HEAD supporting Centrino Wireless-N 135

[Adrian Chadd]

Hi,

Yeah, there's likely something missing. But I just at the moment have
no time to debug this.


-a


On 26 February 2014 04:37, Tom Murphy <freebsd at pertho.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>   I compiled a fresh kernel from -HEAD and rebooted in the hope that my
> laptop's wifi would now be supported (I saw the commit messages in January
> about it possibly supporting Centrino Wireless-N 135). However, while
> it does attempt to bring the wifi up, the link just goes up and down
> and does not work properly.
>
>   Knowing that the BSDs are fairly close and share some code, I did try
> the OpenBSD driver and it works. Is there some code that could be missing
> from the FreeBSD iwn(4) to stabilize it? I'd be happy to test any patches.
>
> Kind regards,
> Tom
>
> wlan0: no link ......wlan0: link state changed to UP
> wlan0 link stage up -> down
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
> wlan0: link state changed to UP
> wlan0: link state down -> up
> (more DHCPDISCOVER)
> wlan0 link stage up -> down
>
> Rise and repeat.
>
> iwn0: <Intel Centrino Wireless-N 135> mem 0xf7900000-0xf7901fff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci3
>
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