On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:23:49AM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > Hi > > I've HP Compaq 6715s laptop. I'm trying > to get wireless working. The laptop has > Intel 4965 4965AGN wireless WiFi PCI-E card 802.11N AGN > which is supported by iwn(4). I compiled iwn support > into the kernel as suggested by the man page.
Did you also compile in the correct firmware module?
> However, the card doesn't appear in dmesg or
> in pciconf -lv.
Hmm. My 5100 AGN is correctly detected and used;
i...@pci0:14:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x12018086 chip=0x42328086 rev=0x00
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = 'Carte Intel WiFi Link 5100 AGN (Intel WiFi Link 5100)'
class = network
iwn0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 5100> mem 0xf2200000-0xf2201fff irq 18 at device
0.0 on pci14
iwn0: MIMO 1T2R, MoW, address 00:22:fa:a3:b6:50
iwn0: [ITHREAD]
iwn0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
iwn0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
iwn0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36M
> The laptop has a wireless toggle button, which is supposed
> to enable/disable wireless. There is also an LED, which
> lights on when wireless is enabled, and goes off
> when wireless is off. Well, at least this is what
> should happen.
>
> On boot the LED is on.
>
> If I press the button to disable wireless, the LED goes
> off and in dmesg I see:
>
> ugen0.2: <Broadcom Corp> at usbus0 (disconnected)
>
> When I switch wireless back on again I see in dmesg:
>
> ugen0.2: <Broadcom Corp> at usbus0
> Does this mean that wireless sits on USB bus?
I don't think so. I think this is some kind of management interface? I get the
same messages when I switch off my 5100 AGN.
> Does this give me a clue about how to debug
> the problem further?
It puzzles me that it is not seen in the pciconf output. Could it be that the
wireless is disabled in the laptop's BIOS?
Roland
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