Intel Centrino Advanced N 6230

DMZ.008

Hello,

I attached the Intel Wireless card 6230 to minipc running pfsense 2.4.4.

On SSH, I ran the command pciconf -lbcev. I don't see the wireless card.

Also in Interfaces -> (assign) and click "+", I do not see the wireless interface there too.

The wireless card wasn't picked up by pfsense 2.4.4.

May I know what I should do next to resolve the issue?

Thanks.

tman222

From what I can tell, this card is supported by FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE, so should in theory work with the latest version of pfSense:

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=iwn&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+11.2-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html

Is the iwn driver already being loaded? If not, you can load it as a module at boot time (instructions are in the link above).

Hope this helps.

stephenw10

If it doesn't appear as a device in pciconf though it's never going to work. Seems like some lower level incompatibility or a broken card.

Steve

DMZ.008

@tman222 Thanks for your response.
You are right the iwn driver is not part of the kernel. When I make a search for iwn, I don' see any result.

May I check what is the kernel file name and where I can find that.

Thanks once again for you quick response.

stephenw10

You are looking wrong:

[2.4.4-RELEASE][admin@5100.stevew.lan]/root: kldstat -v | grep iwn
		172 pci/iwn
		185 iwn6050fw_fw
		184 iwn6000g2bfw_fw
		183 iwn6000g2afw_fw
		182 iwn6000fw_fw
		181 iwn5150fw_fw
		180 iwn5000fw_fw
		179 iwn4965fw_fw
		178 iwn2030fw_fw
		177 iwn2000fw_fw
		176 iwn135fw_fw
		175 iwn105fw_fw
		174 iwn100fw_fw
		173 iwn1000fw_fw

But even if there was no driver the card should still appear in the output of pciconf -lv. If it does not there is some low level issue like broken hardware or a bios bug.

Steve

DMZ.008

@stephenw10 said in Intel Centrino Advanced N 6230:

pciconf -lv

Hi Stephen,

output of pciconf -lv

/root: kldstat -v | grep iwn
167 pci/iwn
180 iwn6050fw_fw
179 iwn6000g2bfw_fw
178 iwn6000g2afw_fw
177 iwn6000fw_fw
176 iwn5150fw_fw
175 iwn5000fw_fw
174 iwn4965fw_fw
173 iwn2030fw_fw
172 iwn2000fw_fw
171 iwn135fw_fw
170 iwn105fw_fw
169 iwn100fw_fw
168 iwn1000fw_fw

however I can't find any wireless card in the device list when I run pciconf -lv

Thanks.

stephenw10

I assume you do see some things listed by pciconf though? On a standard x86 box I expect to see a large number of PCI devices.

You need to check the card works at all in something else.

Then test the slot with another card if you can.

Steve