Re: iwi0: could not load boot firmware iwi_bss

Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
Hi,

I've set legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 in loader.conf(5) and tried
to load if_iwi but I get the following message:

% iwi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG> mem 0xc8218000-0xc8218fff irq 11 at device 3.0 on pci6
% iwi0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
% iwi0: Ethernet address: 00:12:f0:2c:f3:6e
% iwi0: [ITHREAD]
% iwi0: timeout waiting for iwi_bss firmware initialization to complete
% iwi0: could not load boot firmware iwi_bss
% iwi0: timeout waiting for iwi_bss firmware initialization to complete
% iwi0: could not load boot firmware iwi_bss
% iwi0: timeout waiting for iwi_bss firmware initialization to complete
% iwi0: could not load boot firmware iwi_bss
% in_delmulti_locked: purging ifma 0xc3caf420
% iwi0: timeout waiting for iwi_bss firmware initialization to complete
% iwi0: could not load boot firmware iwi_bss

jarjarbinks:~:105# kldstat | grep iwi
5 1 0xc4158000 30000 iwi_bss.ko
10 1 0xc4188000 e000 if_iwi.ko


Help would be welcome.

Can you try to kldload iwi_bss *before* if_iwi, rather than having
if_iwi automatically loading iwi_bss?

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