Re: iwi driver

On Sunday 30 April 2006 19:45, Sam Leffler wrote:
> rmgls_at_wanadoo.fr wrote:
> > hello all,
> >
> > since the last update dated
> > Sat Apr 29, (on current),
> > the iwi driver does not work:
> > cannot change any achannel, and no association!
> > the old version of the driver works.
> >
> > ...
> > ;* Copyright Sam Leffler  */
> >
> > 	previous:
> > /*	$FreeBSD: src/sys/dev/iwi/if_iwi.c,v 1.27 2006/01/29 12:03:03 damien
> > Exp $	*/
> >
> > the nic is seated onboard of a s5 Sony laptop.
> > 		dmesg:
> > ...
> > firmware_get: failed to load firmware image iwi_bss
> > iwi0: could not load firmware
> >
> > ...
> >
> > firmware_get: failed to load firmware image iwi_bss
> > iwi0: could not load firmware
> >
> > 		pciconf -lv
> > iwi0_at_pci6:11:0:	class=0x028000 card=0x27538086 chip=0x42208086 rev=0x05
> > hdr=0x00 vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
> >     device   = 'PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection'
> >     class    = network
> >
> > Please can you tell me something to do about this?
>
> The firmware image file could not be loaded; verify it is present and
> named properly.  The driver in cvs will accept either 2.4 or 3.x rev
> image formats so if you get the filename right it should just work.
> Unfortunately there was a period of time where the driver in cvs would
> only accept rev 3.0 firmware then the names associated with the firmware
> changed, etc.  As a result some people have bogus firmware files on
> their system.
>
> When in doubt you can pre-load the firmware with kldload.  Unfortunately
> firmware(9) doesn't have any debug msgs to show things like firmware
> images being registered.  This would be useful for cases like this.

Here is a small patch to build a "debug.firmware" sysctl.  Should give: 
"iwi_bss/300/191142" for the latest firmware from net/iwi-firmware-kmod

Any comments on the patch?  Will commit shortly otherwise.

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