Lenovo X220 and WiFi Centrino Advanced-N 6205 failed to work

[jfoucry]

Hello Friends,

I own (and I'm almost happy with it) a Lenovo X220. As every body who own this machine, I must says Whaouu!

Well, I ran FreeBSD 14.0-STABLE (ghostBSD)

The wifi card id a Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205:

iwn0@pci0:3:0:0:    class=0x028000 rev=0x34 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x0085 subvendor=0x8086 subdevice=0x1311
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
    device     = 'Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak]'
    class      = network

And… It did not work. I read many docs, many thread here and the conclusion is almost "Buy an USB dongle". I think it will works, but is not a complete satisfying answer. Is it still the case with FreeBSD 14?

I tried to change the WiFi card, but I can't remove the existing one.

So, what's your thinking or advises? Did I am a perfect dumb who don't know where to search? Did FreeBSD14 does not deal with this even iwn(4) man page says this card is manage?

My configuration is really classical:

wlans_iwn0="wlan0"
create_args_wlan0="country FR regdomain ETSI"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"

I will check with my wifi dongle.

Thanks for reading me and give me some advises.

 

[ivosevb]

Hi, for the start try with

ifconfig_wlan0="WPA mode 11g DHCP"

 

[ChubaDuba]

iwn0@pci0:3:0:0:    class=0x028000 rev=0x34 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x0085 subvendor=0x8086 subdevice=0x1311
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
    device     = 'Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak]'
    class      = network

Everything works fine for me on Lenovo ThinkPad x220 Tablet.
My config:

wlans_iwn0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP powersave"
create_args_wlan0="country RU regdomain NONE"

 

[jfoucry]

Hello ivosevb,

Unfortunately, no chance even after a reboot.

ifconfig_wlan0="WPA mode 11g DHCP"

wlan0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
    options=0
    ether 08:11:96:3f:c2:d0
    groups: wlan
    ssid "" channel 1 (2412 MHz 11b)
    regdomain ETSI country FR authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 30
    bmiss 10 scanvalid 60 wme bintval 0
    parent interface: iwn0
    media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
    status: no carrier
    nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>

 

[jfoucry]

Everything works fine for me on Lenovo ThinkPad x220 Tablet.
My config:

wlans_iwn0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP powersave"
create_args_wlan0="country RU regdomain NONE"

Hi ChubaDuba,

I tried your config (only the Country ream different) and… No chance too :-(

Could it be the kernel? GhostBSD use STABLE instead of RELEASE?

Thanks for your time.