[9front] Intel PRO/Wireless 2200bg

[9front] Intel PRO/Wireless 2200bg

[wakyct]

Hello, 

I installed 9front for the first time, on a Thinkpad x41t. From what I've read 
9front doesn't support the 2200bg wifi card, but maybe someone has done some 
work to port the driver? I tried putting the iwi firmware from 
firmware.openbsd.org in /lib/firmware and rebooting, but there is (not 
surprisingly) still no wifi card listed in the boot messages. 

Advice for porting drivers to 9front would be great as well, thanks in 
advance for info on yet another wifi question. 

George   

Re: [9front] Intel PRO/Wireless 2200bg

[Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir]

/sys/src/9/pc/etheriwl.c

OpenBSD's drivers are pretty good.

Re: [9front] Intel PRO/Wireless 2200bg

[mkf9]

wakyct@tilde.team wrote:
> Hello,
> I installed 9front for the first time, on a Thinkpad x41t. From what 
> I've read 9front doesn't support the 2200bg wifi card, but maybe someone 
> has done some work to port the driver? I tried putting the iwi firmware 
> from firmware.openbsd.org in /lib/firmware and rebooting, but there is 
> (not surprisingly) still no wifi card listed in the boot messages.
> Advice for porting drivers to 9front would be great as well, thanks in 
> advance for info on yet another wifi question.
> George

"Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2200" that's what i have in my x230, and it 
has indeed worked for me.

not sure we are referring to the same card.

Re: [9front] Intel PRO/Wireless 2200bg

[james palmer]

you are not referring to the same card.

the pro/wireless 2200bg is supported by the openbsd iwi driver. i made a start on porting it for my x41t but never got round to finishing it, it gets as far as loading firmware onto the card and booting it.

https://paste.sr.ht/~foura/fd2dd22ca252bc4c3df0995b9e8f15943a906f2c

someone else is welcome to continue this work, i am busy with other things at the moment.

- james

On 21 August 2022 08:43:30 BST, mkf9 <mkf9@riseup.net> wrote:
>wakyct@tilde.team wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I installed 9front for the first time, on a Thinkpad x41t. From what I've read 9front doesn't support the 2200bg wifi card, but maybe someone has done some work to port the driver? I tried putting the iwi firmware from firmware.openbsd.org in /lib/firmware and rebooting, but there is (not surprisingly) still no wifi card listed in the boot messages.
>> Advice for porting drivers to 9front would be great as well, thanks in advance for info on yet another wifi question.
>> George
>
>"Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2200" that's what i have in my x230, and it has indeed worked for me.
>
>not sure we are referring to the same card.
>