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    • Z
      Zeustek
      last edited by

      Hi all.

      I have pfsense installed on an H77N-Wifi. I downloaded the Windows driver which had a licence document identifying the adapter as 5100AGN. It's listed as supported by FreeBSD.

      I added the following lines to loader.conf.local:

      legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1
      legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1
      legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1
      if_iwn_load="YES"
      iwn1000fw_load="YES"
      iwn2000fw_load="YES"
      iwn2030fw_load="YES"
      iwn4965fw_load="YES"
      iwn5000fw_load="YES"
      iwn5150fw_load="YES"
      iwn6000fw_load="YES"
      iwn6000g2afw_load="YES"
      iwn6000g2bfw_load="YES"
      iwn6050fw_load="YES"

      Now, when pfsense boots I get the following in the log:

      iwn0: could not attach device, error 45
      iwn0: adapter type 12 not supported
      iwn0: <intel 2230="" centrino="" wireless-n="">mem 0xf7c00000-0xf7c01fff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci4</intel>

      So it looks like this is actually an Intel Centrino 2230. Is it going to be possible to get this working?

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      • NogBadTheBadN
        NogBadTheBad
        last edited by

        Don't think it will work.

        https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.3R/hardware.html#wlan

        [i386, amd64] Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 MiniPCI network adapter (ipw(4) driver)

        [i386, amd64] Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2915ABG MiniPCI and 2225BG PCI network adapters (iwi(4) driver)

        [i386, amd64] Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN IEEE 802.11n PCI network adapters (iwn(4) driver)

        Andy

        1 x Netgate SG-4860 - 3 x Linksys LGS308P - 1 x Aruba InstantOn AP22

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