Comments on: iwn

By: leaf vacuum

leaf vacuum — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 15:04:02 +0000

Informative place and thanks for this update.

By: Benjamin Close

Benjamin Close — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:49:46 +0000

Howdy, I’ll need some more logs in order to diagnose this. Can you send me the output of dmesg (please boot verbosely) and pciconf -lv to benjsc@freebsd.org so I can try and work out why things aren’t working.

By: 16hot

16hot — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:42:58 +0000

hi,

I have some error:

iwn0: mem 0xf2500000-0xf2501fff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci3
iwn0: Reg Domain: , address 00:22:fa:61:93:8e
iwn0: iwn_read_eeprom_ht40: no entry for channel 124
iwn0: iwn_read_eeprom_ht40: no entry for channel 132
iwn0: iwn_read_eeprom_ht40: no entry for channel 149
iwn0: iwn_read_eeprom_ht40: no entry for channel 157
iwn0: Ethernet address: 00:22:fa:61:93:8e
iwn0: [ITHREAD]
iwn0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
iwn0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
iwn0: 11ng MCS: 6.5Mbps 13Mbps 19.5Mbps 26Mbps 39Mbps 52Mbps 58.5Mbps 65Mbps 13Mbps 26Mbps 39Mbps 52Mbps 78Mbps 104Mbps 117Mbps 130Mbps
iwn0: iwn_transfer_firmware: invalid firmware header, main [128504,49152], init [118176,49152] boot 0
iwn0: iwn_init: could not load firmware, error 22

By: Benjamin Close

Benjamin Close — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:27:30 +0000

The perforce version is vastly out of date. I believe there is a backport version of iwn available from 8.0 -> 7.1 as provided at: http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/stable/2008-09/msg00534.html This might be the better option to try.

By: M

Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:08:58 +0000

Benjamin,

Do you know if the perforce version works under 7.1-RELEASE?

The driver seems to load fine and I can scan for access points, but when I run wpa_supplicant -iiwn0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf it hangs.

My /var/log/messages says “kernel: iwn0: device timeout”

Thanks.

By: Benjamin Close

Benjamin Close — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:23:39 +0000

Check your messages (ie /var/log/messages). If your using 7.0-RELEASE then the p4 code is a little ahead of the release. If you get an error related to m_defrag or m_collapse (can’t remember which one) then you need to sync up to 7.0-STABLE (ie you need to do a buildworld/buildkernel/installworld/installkernel)

By: Sting

Sting — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:50:54 +0000

Hi Benjamin, thanks a lot for your contribution, I use a Compaq 6910p and I looked for this for a while.

I download source code from P4DB and build it following the README, but I get “kldload: can’t load if_iwn: No such file or directory” when I try to load if_iwn.ko by “Kldload if_iwn”, as well as “kldload /boot/kernel/if_iwn.ko” and I’m sure /boot/kernel/if_iwn.ko exits.

uname -a
FreeBSD hp.sting.net 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008 root@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386

Can you tell me what I did was wrong, thank you.