Re: iwi0 firmware error on Dell Inspiron 6000 w/ Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG

Stefan Ehmann wrote:
> On Thursday 25 October 2007 18:28:47 pluknet wrote:
>   
>> On 25/10/2007, Guy Helmer <ghelmer_at_palisadesys.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> I just upgraded a laptop to FreeBSD RELENG_7 checked out on 20071016.
>>> Previously, iwi0 had worked OK under FreeBSD 6.2.  After updating to 7,
>>> though, iwi0 reports "firmware error" and nothing more happens.  I have
>>> set legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 in /boot/loader.conf.  wpa_supplicant
>>> and dhclient are running with the same configurations that worked under
>>> FreeBSD 6.  I'm using the GENERIC kernel with SCHED_ULE instead of
>>> SCHED_4BSD, and the loaded modules are:
>>>
>>> Id Refs Address    Size     Name
>>>  1   23 0xc0400000 8d0750   kernel
>>>  2    1 0xc0cd1000 111b8    geom_eli.ko
>>>  3    2 0xc0ce3000 25ff8    crypto.ko
>>>  4    2 0xc0d09000 ab40     zlib.ko
>>>  5    1 0xc0d14000 6e48     snd_ich.ko
>>>  6    2 0xc0d1b000 4a52c    sound.ko
>>>  7    1 0xc0d66000 69164    acpi.ko
>>> 10    1 0xc32fb000 22000    linux.ko
>>> 11    1 0xc3595000 21000    radeon.ko
>>> 12    1 0xc35b6000 f000     drm.ko
>>> 13    1 0xc31ff000 f000     if_iwi.ko
>>> 14    1 0xc3e4f000 30000    iwi_bss.ko
>>>
>>> ifconfig iwi0 reports:
>>>
>>> iwi0: flags=8803<UP,BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>>>         ether 00:12:f0:12:1c:24
>>>         inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
>>>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
>>>         status: no carrier
>>>         ssid "" channel 8 (2447 Mhz 11g)
>>>         authmode WPA1+WPA2/802.11i privacy ON deftxkey 1 txpowmax 100
>>>         bmiss 10 scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250
>>>         roam:rssi11g 14 roam:rate11g 5 protmode CTS roaming MANUAL
>>> bintval 100
>>>
>>> I've tried setting debug.iwi=1, and the kernel messages regarding iwi0
>>> are:
>>>
>>> Oct 25 08:09:11 aquarius kernel: iwi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG> mem
>>> 0xdfcfd000-0xdfcfdfff irq 17 at device 3.0 on pci3 Oct 25 08:09:11
>>> aquarius kernel: iwi0: Ethernet address: 00:12:f0:12:1c:24 Oct 25
>>> 08:09:11 aquarius kernel: iwi0: [ITHREAD]
>>> Oct 25 08:09:14 aquarius kernel: iwi0: firmware error
>>> Oct 25 08:10:17 aquarius kernel: iwi_newstate: SCAN -> INIT flags 0x0
>>> Oct 25 08:10:31 aquarius kernel: iwi_newstate: INIT -> INIT flags 0x0
>>> Oct 25 08:10:31 aquarius kernel: iwi_newstate: INIT -> SCAN flags 0x1
>>> Oct 25 08:10:57 aquarius kernel: iwi_newstate: SCAN -> SCAN flags 0x1
>>> Oct 25 08:10:57 aquarius kernel: iwi_newstate: SCAN -> SCAN flags 0x1
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Guy
>>>
>>> --
>>> Guy Helmer, Ph.D.
>>> Chief System Architect
>>> Palisade Systems, Inc.
>>>       
>> Me too.
>> (It works in authmode OPEN though, see my case on
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-August/076397.html)
>>     
>
> On my notebook, I get similar errors most of the time. The problems started 
> some months ago.
>
> If I don't configure iwi0 via /etc/rc.conf, I can get WPA working something 
> like this:
>
> ifconfig iwi0 up
> wpa_supplicant -d -i iwi0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
> dhclient iwi0
>
> IIRC it worked most of the time via /etc/rc.conf if I disabled 
> WITNESS/INVARIANTS. Haven't been using the notebook too much lately, so I'm 
> not sure if this is still true.
>   

I just tested this on a t42 w/ 2200 card and it worked for me.  Try 
setting debug.iwi to something like 2 or 5 and collect a log.  The 
firmware is very finnicky and getting it to integrate w/ wpa_supplicant 
was a challenge.

    Sam