Re: [RFT] Intel 3945abg wireless driver (wpi)

On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 11:28:03AM +0100, Lars Engels wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 11:48:21AM +1030, Benjamin Close wrote:
> > Max Laier wrote:
> > >On Friday 02 November 2007, Lars Engels wrote:
> > >  
> > >>On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 10:23:44AM +1030, Benjamin Close wrote:
> > >>    
> > >>>Howdy All,           I'm pleased to announce the first 'official'
> > >>>experimental version of the wpi wireless driver and hence require
> > >>>your help in making it become stable.
> > >>>Expect a few things not to work (ie bg scanning, setting txpower) but
> > >>>in general the driver should be usable in station mode (hostap is not
> > >>>yet supported).
> > >>>
> > >>>If you've got an Intel 3945abg wireless card, grab the tarball at:
> > >>>
> > >>>  http://people.freebsd.org/~benjsc/downloads/wpi/20071102-freebsd-wpi.
> > >>>tar.gz
> > >>>
> > >>>Untar and follow the instructions in the README.
> > >>>If you want more info about the driver, or to checkout the FAQ
> > >>>checkout:
> > >>>
> > >>>   http://www.clearchain.com/wiki/Wpi
> > >>>
> > >>>I'm interested in all reports related to panics, things not working
> > >>>as expected, etc. The driver still has debug enabled so expect a few
> > >>>messages to be dumped to the screen whilst in use.
> > >>>
> > >>>Finally, many thanks to all those that have been helping debug the
> > >>>driver along the way.
> > >>>
> > >>>Cheers,
> > >>>   Benjamin
> > >>>      
> > >>Good to know that someone is still working on it.
> > >>However, it doesn't work for me. I cannot load the firmware:
> > >>
> > >>lars_at_ttyp3 # kldload wpifw
> > >>lars_at_ttyp3 # dmesg
> > >>wpifw: You need to read the LICENSE file in
> > >>/usr/share/doc/legal/intel_wpi/. wpifw: If you agree with the license,
> > >>set legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 in /boot/loader.conf.
> > >>module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (wpifw_fw, 0xc6d1151c, 0) error 1
> > >>
> > >>lars_at_ttyp3 # grep legal.intel_wpi.license_ack /boot/loader.conf
> > >>legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1
> > >>
> > >>lars_at_ttyp3 # sysctl legal
> > >>sysctl: unknown oid 'legal'
> > >>    
> > >
> > >It's not a sysctl it's in kenv, but if it's in loader.conf it should be in kenv, too.
> > >
> > >  
> > >>And I even read the license! ;-)
> > >>    
> > >
> > >
> > >  
> > You shouldn't need to manually kldload the wpifw, wpi will pull it
> > in for you. However, if you have the line in loader.conf it should
> > work - I take it you did reboot 
> > for the setting to be grabbed?
> > 
> 
> Sorry for the noise. I didn't reboot nor did I use kenv. It's working
> now except for WPA. :)

I revert this: WPA is working! \o/

lars_at_ttyp3 # ifconfig wpi0
wpi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        ether 00:13:02:3f:0d:e4
        inet 192.168.1.33 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (OFDM/18Mbps)
        status: associated
        ssid shelbyville channel 11 (2462 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:13:49:ca:81:e3
        authmode WPA privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF TKIP 2:128-bit txpowmax 100
        bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 protmode CTS roaming MANUAL bintval 100


FreeBSD maggie.bsd-geek.de 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #1: Fri Oct 12 23:43:47 CEST 2007

Thanks for the good work, Ben!

Lars