Re: problems configuring wireless using iwi

FreeBSD CURRENT has a different approach to wireless cards.  Somewhere 
in /etc/rc.conf you need lines like
wlans_iwi0="wlan0"
and then all future ifconfig command should refer to wlan0 instead of iwi0.

I am not sure if this will fix your problem or not, but you must have 
not done this somewhere, otherwise ifconfig would have listed wlan0 as 
well as iwi0.

If you are new to FreeBSD, you might prefer to use FreeBSD-STABLE 
instead.  I think iwi is already a part of that.


Khusro Jaleel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to FreeBSD-CURRENT and am having problems getting my wireless
> to work on my laptop. It is an old Centrino ASUS laptop with built-in
> IPW2200 wireless. I've had no problems getting wireless to work on
> this for the past few years now with many flavors of linux and of
> course Windows so I'm sure it should also work in FreeBSD without any
> issues.
> 
> However, I'm not having much luck. I've followed the instructions in
> the Handbook's Wireless page and read the iwi(4) man page and added
> the following to my /boot/loader.conf:
> 
> -------------
> legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1
> if_iwi_load="YES"
> wlan_load="YES"
> firmware_load="YES"
> iwi_bss_load="YES"
> iwi_ibss_load="YES"
> iwi_monitor_load="YES"
> hw.psm.synaptics_support=1
> --------------
> 
> When I reboot and do a "dmesg | grep iwi" I get:
> 
> ----------
> iwi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG> mem 0xff9de000-0xff9defff irq 4
> at device 2.0 on pci2
> iwi0: [ITHREAD]
> iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete
> iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null)
> iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete
> iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null)
> iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete
> iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null)
> iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete
> iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null)
> iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete
> iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null)
> iwi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG> mem 0xff9de000-0xff9defff irq 4
> at device 2.0 on pci2
> iwi0: [ITHREAD]
> iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete
> iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null)
> iwi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG> mem 0xff9de000-0xff9defff irq 4
> at device 2.0 on pci2
> iwi0: [ITHREAD]
> iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete
> iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null)
> iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete
> iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null)
> iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete
> iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null)
> iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete
> iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null)
> iwi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG> mem 0xff9de000-0xff9defff irq 4
> at device 2.0 on pci2
> iwi0: [ITHREAD]
> iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete
> iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null)
> ----------
> 
> Am I forgetting to load the firmware somehow? In /boot/kernel, I see
> the following files:
> 
> -----------
> [root_at_asus ~]# ls -l /boot/kernel/iwi_*
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  197996 Oct 31 23:56 /boot/kernel/iwi_bss.ko
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  190182 Oct 31 23:56 /boot/kernel/iwi_ibss.ko
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  194760 Oct 31 23:56 /boot/kernel/iwi_monitor.ko
> -----------
> 
> ifconfig:
> bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>        options=9b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM>
>        ether 00:11:2f:0c:e8:7f
>        inet 192.168.1.70 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
>        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>        status: active
> fwe0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>        options=8<VLAN_MTU>
>        ether 02:e0:18:1b:1f:63
>        ch 1 dma -1
> fwip0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>        lladdr 0.e0.18.0.3.1b.1f.63.a.2.ff.fe.0.0.0.0
> iwi0: flags=8803<UP,BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
>        ether 00:0e:35:0d:7c:65
>        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
>        status: no carrier
> plip0: flags=108810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> metric 0 mtu 1500
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
>        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6
>        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
>        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
> 
> But if I try to do "ifconfig iwi0 up" I get:
> 
> ----------
> iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete
> iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null)
> ----------
> 
> Any help appreciated. Thanks.
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