My wireless card arrived yesterday. It's a WIRELESS WIFI LINK 622AN --> also known as n6200.
Booting up my previously installed NetBSD didn't recognize the card. To get the card working without a network I had to do the following steps:
- download pksrc-current
-download src
- copy it to an usb
- copy pkgsrc and src to /usr
- unpack the files
- build toolchain
- compile kernel
Before doing that I copied my iwl-firmware from my Gentoo system to the libdata/firmware directory.
Because there seems to be a difference between Linux (iwl) and NetBSD (iwn) I copied the files to both directories/or had to delete the file iwl_iwl (this one is a file and not a directory as the other ones) and create the directory if_iwl and copy the firmware files there as well.
Booting up system with the new kernel immediately recognized the new card.
The idea I had is that if you have at least a little confidence that your card could be supported and that it is not recognized during the installation that you can at least do that firmware and kernel recompile thing before giving up.
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