Re: iwi0: could not load boot firmware iwi_bss

Hi, Max,

On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 06:53:40PM +0100, Max Laier wrote:
Good catch nontheless. I updated UPDATING accordingly.

Jeremie, can you provide kern.osreldate and a bit more information about
your setup? i.e. what's in your loader.conf? There have been some
problems with firmware(9) in the past, that should be taken care of by
now. Could you try to update to a more recent current? Using the
firmware from base shouldn't hurt either.

kern.osreldate: 700035

Even better:
jarjarbinks:/usr/src:111# cat sys/CVS/Tag
D2007.03.31.04.00.00

Do you think it would be worth upgrading ? I saw no relevant commit
since yesterday.

I've attached my kernel configuration file. It starts from GENERIC
and first removes all options/devices I don't need; at the bottom,
I add a couple of options and devices I need.

/boot/loader.conf:
% hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1
%
% hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"
% debug.cpufreq.lowest=0
% acpi_dsdt_load="YES"
% acpi_dsdt_name="/boot/DSDT.aml"
%
% beastie_disable="YES"
% verbose_loading="YES"
%
% if_bge_load="YES"
% legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1


Following Florent's advice I began to play with the LKM. I needed to
stop devd(8) to workaround the "autoreload" bug. I can then load
if_iwi.ko and iwi_bss.ko in _any order_ without any groan from the
kernel.

However as soon as I start devd(8) or wpa_supplicant(8), the same message
appears:
% iwi0: timeout waiting for iwi_bss firmware initialization to complete
% iwi0: could not load boot firmware iwi_bss


Thank you for your help.
Best regards,
--
Jeremie Le Hen
< jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >
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