Firmware error with iwn on 9-stable.

Frank Mayhar frank at exit.com
Wed Jan 2 05:37:11 UTC 2013


On Mon, 2012-12-31 at 23:49 -0800, Frank Mayhar wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a new laptop, which has an Intel Centrino
> Ultimate-N 6300 wireless card.  I was under the impression that the
> 9-stable iwn driver fully supported this card but I've run into a
> problem.  Specifically, I'm seeing this firmware crash:
> 
>         iwn0: iwn_intr: fatal firmware error

For the record, this appears to be the problem referred to by
"kern/163154: [iwn] fatal firmware error on 9.0-RC3."  Apparently this
still happens in 9-stable, with the same symptoms, fails with 802.11a
but not with 11g.

Unfortunately the interface still fails (with other symptoms) with 11g.
-- 
Frank Mayhar
frank at exit.com


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