On 11/3/08, Khusro Jaleel <kerneljack_at_gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for your reply, Stephen, just a few other questions: > > Am I supposed to download the firmware from somewhere or not? > > I tried going to /usr/ports/net/iwi-firmware/ and iwi-firmware-kmod > and running "make install" but both of them error out saying something > about "please run make rmconfig and remove CONTROL" but when I run > "make rmconfig" I get "No user-configurable ...." something like that. > > I'm still not sure whether I need to get the firmware from somewhere > or not? I hope you can clarify this. My /boot/kernel has those > iwi_bss.ko etc files that I mentioned, but I'm not sure if those are > firmware or not? Should I get the firmware from somewhere and put it > in /boot/firmware instead? iwi_bss.ko module and others are firmware for iwi and their Makefiles are located in /sys/modules/iwifw Firmware files are located in: /sys/contrib/dev/iwi/ > I will try putting those lines /etc/rc.conf tonight and will see what > happens. > > Thanks again. > > On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith > <stephen_at_math.missouri.edu> wrote: >> 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. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>> "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" >>> >>> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" >Received on Mon Nov 03 2008 - 11:40:40 UTC
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