X230 Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2200 not working

Adrian Chadd adrian.chadd at gmail.com
Wed Aug 19 01:51:02 UTC 2015


hi,

please give a -HEAD snapshot on it and see if it works. :)

Thanks!


-a


On 18 August 2015 at 18:23, Toby Slight <tobyslight at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I just tried to install FreeBSD 10.2 on my Thinkpad X230 after reading that
> it was well supported here - https://wiki.freebsd.org/Laptops/Thinkpad_X230.
>
> The wifi card (Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2200) is supported by iwn
> according to that page and this page - https://wiki.freebsd.org/dev/iwn(4).
>
> However before and after install ifconfig only shows the ethernet device
> and the loopback. I tried adding if_iwn_load="YES" to loader.conf as
> suggested by the man page, but the dmesg just came back saying the iwn is
> already loaded...
>
> I came across some threads from way back in the 9.1 days (
> http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/What-driver-should-I-use-for-intel-centrino-wireless-N-2200-BGN-td5750303.html)
> and tried some of the driver loading suggestions there, on the off chance
> they might still be applicable, but still no interfaces show up other than
> ethernet and loopback.
>
> Is this device supported in 10.2, and if so what am I doing wrong?
>
> Cheers,
> Toby
>
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