Re: Cannot use iwi(4): "could not load firmware iwi_bss"

From: Andrew Thompson <thompsa_at_FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:21:33 +1200 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:39:15 UTC

On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 01:21:00AM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 11:57:21AM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> > Thank you for replying :-).
> > 
> > I'm indeed not using APIC (ISTR it was designed for SMP, I don't know
> > what benefit I could get from it considering my laptop is UP).
> > 
> > I stopped using ACPI a few months ago as it prevented psm(4) from
> > working (albeit it ACPI+SMP doesn't exhibit the problem) (see [1]).
> > 
> > What do you advice me to do?  Do you need me to do some testing,
> > enabling ACPI or something like that?  I'm at work currently, I will
> > only be able to do this in a couple of hour.
> 
> Ok, I've tried with ACPI enabled and I confirm that iwi(4) can
> successfully load its firmware in this case.  Unfortunately psm(4)
> doesn't work so this is not an option for me.

Thanks for testing this and it at least rules out iwi as the problem,
you may want to take this further on the acpi mailing list (or here).

cheers,
Andrew