Re: iwi0: could not load boot firmware iwi_bss

Hi, Max,

On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 06:53:40PM +0100, Max Laier wrote:
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.

I've upgraded my kernel this morning, and I still have the same
problem. Loading iwi_bss first doesn't help. I'm using the
iwifw module.

% jarjarbinks:~:102# cat /usr/src.jarjar/sys/CVS/Tag
% D2007.04.11.20.00.00

% kern.osreldate: 700037

% jarjarbinks:~:105# cat /boot/loader.conf
% hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1
%
% beastie_disable="YES"
% verbose_loading="YES"
%
% if_bge_load="YES"
% legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1

As soon as I start devd(8) or wpa_supplicant(8), I get:

% iwi0: timeout waiting for iwi_bss firmware initialization to complete
% iwi0: could not load boot firmware iwi_bss

This time I've attached my kernel configuration file :-).

Note that I'm using Suleiman's stackgap and mmap_random patches,
but AFAIU this only affects userland, so I don't think this is
relevant in this case. But in doubt:
http://people.freebsd.org/~ssouhlal/testing/stackgap-20050527.diff
http://people.freebsd.org/~ssouhlal/testing/mmap_random-20050528.diff

Thank you.
Best regards,
--
Jeremie Le Hen
< jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >
include GENERIC # 2007.02.21.12.00.00

#
# First disable what I don't need.
#

nocpu I486_CPU
nocpu I586_CPU

nooption INET6
nooption NFSSERVER
nooption NFS_ROOT
nooption CD9660
nooption GEOM_PART_GPT
nooption GEOM_LABEL
nooption COMPAT_FREEBSD4
nooption COMPAT_FREEBSD5

nooption SMP

# SCSI, RAID.
nodevice fdc
nodevice ataraid
nodevice atapifd
nodevice atapist
nodevice ahb
nodevice ahc
nodevice ahd
nodevice amd
nodevice isp
nodevice mpt
nodevice sym
nodevice trm
nodevice adv
nodevice adw
nodevice aha
nodevice aic
nodevice bt
nodevice ncv
nodevice nsp
nodevice stg
nodevice ch
nodevice sa
nodevice cd
nodevice pass
nodevice ses
nodevice amr
nodevice arcmsr
nodevice asr
nodevice ciss
nodevice dpt
nodevice hptmv
nodevice rr232x
nodevice iir
nodevice ips
nodevice mly
nodevice twa
nodevice aac
nodevice aacp
nodevice ida
nodevice mfi
nodevice mlx
nodevice pst
nodevice twe
# Serial port.
nodevice sio
nodevice uart
# Parallel port.
nodevice ppc
nodevice ppbus
nodevice lpt
nodevice plip
nodevice ppi
# Network.
nodevice de
nodevice em
nodevice ixgb
nodevice le
nodevice txp
nodevice vx
nodevice bce
nodevice bfe
nodevice bge
nodevice dc
nodevice fxp
nodevice lge
nodevice msk
nodevice nge
nodevice nve
nodevice pcn
nodevice re
nodevice rl
nodevice sf
nodevice sis
nodevice sk
nodevice ste
nodevice stge
nodevice ti
nodevice tl
nodevice tx
nodevice vge
nodevice vr
nodevice wb
nodevice xl
nodevice cs
nodevice ed
nodevice ex
nodevice ep
nodevice fe
nodevice ie
nodevice sn
nodevice xe
# Wireless.
nodevice wlan
nodevice wlan_wep
nodevice wlan_ccmp
nodevice wlan_tkip
nodevice an
nodevice ath
nodevice ath_hal
nodevice ath_rate_sample
nodevice awi
nodevice ral
nodevice wi
# Pseudo-devices.
nodevice sl
nodevice ppp
nodevice faith
# USB.
nodevice uhci
nodevice ohci
nodevice ehci
nodevice usb
nodevice ugen
nodevice uhid
nodevice ukbd
nodevice ulpt
nodevice umass
nodevice ums
nodevice ural
nodevice urio
nodevice uscanner
nodevice aue
nodevice axe
nodevice cdce
nodevice cue
nodevice kue
nodevice rue
nodevice firewire
nodevice sbp
nodevice fwe

#
# Then add my own stuff.
#

makeoptions MODULES_OVERRIDE="linux syscons fdc sound usb ums geom umass snp nullfs unionfs cd9660 cd9660_iconv wlan wlan_wep wlan_tkip wlan_ccmp wi iwi iwifw ral rl bge drm/drm drm/radeon firmware ext2fs crypto zlib acpi"
makeoptions CPUTYPE="pentium-m"
makeoptions CFLAGS="-O -pipe"

option KDB_UNATTENDED

option SSP_SUPPORT
option VESA
option DIAGNOSTIC

option LIBICONV
option MSDOSFS_ICONV

#option IPSEC
#option IPSEC_ESP
#option IPSEC_FILTERGIF

option IPFIREWALL
option IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE
option IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT
option IPFIREWALL_FORWARD

device apm

device snp

device pf
device pflog
device pfsync

option IPDIVERT

option DUMMYNET

device vlan
device tap
device if_bridge
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