Re: Good supported wireless card for laptop

[Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost>]

  Hello,

Jimmie Houchin <jlhouchin%gmail.com@localhost> writes:

> dmesg says:
>
> iwn0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x008a (rev. 0x34)
> iwn0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 19
> iwn0: MIMO 1T2R, BGN, address MY_MAC_ADDRESS
> iwn0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 3Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
> iwn0: llg rates: 1Mbps 3Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps
> 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
>
> When attempting to configure menu I select the iwn0 option.
>
> Network media type [autoselect]: (I just hit enter)
> Perform DHCP autoconfiguration: YES (I hit enter)
>
> It attempts to configure DHCP which fails.
> I get the below errors.
>
> iwn0: crystal calibration failed
> iwn0: could not initialize hardware
>
> After network configure failed.
>
> ifconfig iwn0
> iwn0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         ssid=""
>         powersave off
>         address MY_MAC_ADDRESS
>         media: IEEE802.11 autoselect
>         status: no network
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> I will finish the install and hopefully we can get my wireless
> up and running.
>
> Let me know if there is anything I can do to help with figuring this out.

When dealing with iwn(4) it helps to check whether distributed firmware
supports your NIC. AFAIR, I'm using newer version of firmware that
didn't come with NetBSD.


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