X230 Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2200 not working

Thomaz Leite i at thomazleite.com
Wed Aug 19 07:13:53 UTC 2015


Actually, I have just tested the brightness keys again on 10.2-RELEASE
and it works.

-- Thomaz

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015, at 07:08 AM, Thomaz Leite wrote:
> What exactly is a -HEAD snapshot? I also have a ThinkPad X230 (with the
> Intel Centrino 6205) and my experience with 10.1/10.2-RELEASE has been
> different than what the wiki says (e.g. brightness keys don't work).
> 
> -- Thomaz
> 
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015, at 01:51 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > 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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