Re: Good supported wireless card for laptop

[Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost>]

On 9 June 2014 18:16, Jimmie Houchin <tjm.whitewright%gmail.com@localhost> 
wrote:
>> On 9 June 2014 16:41, Jimmie Houchin <tjm.whitewright%gmail.com@localhost> 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> This is what happens during the installation because you are using the
>> install kernel. What happens after you reboot?
>>
>> Should you have the same problem I think you should submit a bug report.
>>
>> -- Ottavio
>
>
> After install and reboot I did added a wpa_supplicant.conf file with
> information about my network. I updated rc.conf with this information.
>
> After that I rebooted.
> Upon reboot it continually loops through the attempt to configure iwn0.
> I had to alt-ctrl-f2 to get a terminal I could log into to do
> dmesg >> dmesg.txt
>
> This is what I get.
>
>
> iwn0: crystal calibration failed
> iwn0: could not initialize hardware
> iwn0: cannot assign link-local address
> iwn0: fatal firmware error
> firmware error log:
>   error type      = "UNKNOWN" (0x00001999)
>   program counter = 0x00013688
>   source line     = 0x0000012F
>   error data      = 0x00000001000000A4
>   branch link     = 0x0001367C0001367C
>   interrupt link  = 0x0000C17A00000000
>   time            = 28083
>
> Please let me know what I may have done wrong or how I should proceed.
> Please let me know if there is further information I can provide to help
> diagnose.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jimmie

Like I said before, according to the CHANGES file:
http://www.netbsd.org/changes/changes-7.0.html#iwn%284%29
support for Centrino Wireless-N 1030 was added last year, so in my
opinion you should submit a bug report.

-- 
Ottavio