Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2200BGN

[DFergFLA]

Wireless card not being seen in Haiku.

hrev49663

vendor 8086: Intel Corporation
device 0891: Centrino Wireless-N 2200 (Centrino Wireless-N 2200 BGN)

[diver]

Current ​iprowifi4965/iwn driver doesn't support your device id yet. It needs to be synced with FreeBSD ​http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/dev/iwn/if_iwn.c#L99

[DFergFLA]

Thank you. Any idea on a timeline for that one?

Actually that was an unfair question. The better question would be. How will I know when I should try it again?

[diver]

At the moment we use drivers from FreeBSD 9.3. No one can predict when someone has the time to do this work but this ticket will be closed once it's done and you'll get an email from Trac.

If you don't want to wait, take a look at the driver ​changelog. If you follow this link you see that the last commit added support for Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230.

IIUC, this was backported from a newer driver specifically because someone didn't want to wait for the sync to be done. Maybe you could do the same thing?

[DFergFLA]

I don't have the skill to do that. I will just have to wait.. and maybe beg.

[tojoko]

solved?

compare ​https://www.haiku-os.org/guides/daily-tasks/wireless

[DFergFLA]

Don't know. I downloaded build 50344 and Haiku will no longer boot on this hardware at all.

[tojoko]

@DFergFLA more details please! have u tried blacklisting at least some drivers?

The problem might not (only) be Haiku related, since the source of the sourcecode is freebsd, iirc.

​https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/53182/

[DFergFLA]

Hi, sorry.

I was able to get Haiku to boot using a USB. This ticket, https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/12403, however is slowing me down. I can now boot, but I can't right or left mouse click. I am trying to find a USB mouse to use and when I do I will give this a try and report back.

[DFergFLA]

I got the laptop running on USB. I go to terminal and type "install-wifi-firmware.sh" and hit enter. err: Command not found.

[DFergFLA]

That said I ran the frimwares installer, accepted the licenses and rebooted. But still do not have wireless.

I know you guys hate to hear this stuff. But, it does work, "out of the box", in every Linux distro I have ever tried on this laptop.

[humdinger]

Looks like our FreeBSD 9.3 iwi driver doesn't support your device ID, see ​if_iwi.c:

0x8086, 0x4220, "Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG"
0x8086, 0x4221, "Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2225BG"
0x8086, 0x4223, "Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2915ABG"
0x8086, 0x4224, "Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2915ABG"

[DFergFLA]

Well damn! I can always switch out the wireless card inside the Laptop. I've seen it, it's easy to get to. I would do that as soon as Issue 12403 is resolved. Can you recommend a card to put into the laptop?

[humdinger]

Have a look at the HardwareInfo in the wiki. This is the chipset I use:

  vendor 8086: Intel Corporation
  device 088e: Centrino Advanced-N 6235

Uses the iprowifi4965 driver. It didn't want to connect to my router for a few months (though it did before!), now works like a charm again. Might be that one of the regular updates of my router's firmware broke it and another fixed it...

Also, I ​disable HT-mode, without it I keep losing connection.

[DFergFLA]

I did some searching and I think this chipset is now supported by FreeBSD, so when someone gets around to syncing haiku drivers with FreeBSD I think it will work. :)

[waddlesplash]

iprowifi4965 was synced with FreeBSD in hrev52041. Please retest.

[ttcoder]

My T530 has a device that also lists as 8086 / 0891:

device Network controller [2|80|0]
  vendor 8086: Intel Corporation
  device 0891: Centrino Wireless-N 2200

In hrev52058 / x86_64 I do not get any wifi access listed...

The syslog mentions this:

KERN: [net/iprowifi4965/0] start running, 0 vaps running
KERN: [net/iprowifi4965/0] ieee80211_start_locked: up parent 
KERN: [iprowifi4965] (iwn) iwn_read_firmware: could not read firmware iwn2000fw
KERN: [iprowifi4965] (iwn) iwn_init_locked: could not read firmware, error -2147483643
KERN: [net/iprowifi4965/0] start running, 1 vaps running
KERN: [net/iprowifi4965/0] ieee80211_new_state_locked: INIT -> SCAN (nrunning 0 nscanning 0)
KERN: [net/iprowifi4965/0] ieee80211_newstate_cb: INIT -> SCAN arg 0
KERN: [net/iprowifi4965/0] sta_newstate: INIT -> SCAN (0)

Not sure if it's useful, but with a bit of digging I found #10197, which led me to ​https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/src/add-ons/kernel/drivers/network/wlan/iprowifi4965/glue.c .. which does not list an entry for firmware iwn2000fw indeed. Not sure if it's significant.

Thanks

[waddlesplash]

It is indeed. Please retest after hrev52059.

[ttcoder]

@waddlesplash thanks much, that did it. It works out of the box now, posting with it right now.

Don't know about the ticket OP, but as to me this ticket is done; most impressed with this hrev so far, including the DHCP negotiation which surprisingly took 2 seconds; had never seen that on any platform before (maybe I need to get out more *g*).