Re: FreeBSD and Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG

2009/4/23 Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta@xxxxxxxxx>:
[SOLVED]

Thanks for the help, folks. It works fine now.

I wasn't that lucky :)

I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p4 #12
This is my loader.conf configuration:

legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1
iwi_bss_load="YES"
iwi_ibss_load="YES"
iwi_monitor_load="YES"

And in my kernel config I have:

device pci

device wlan # 802.11 support
device wlan_wep # 802.11 WEP support
device wlan_ccmp # 802.11 CCMP support
device wlan_tkip # 802.11 TKIP support
device wlan_amrr # AMRR transmit rate control algorithm
device wlan_scan_ap # 802.11 AP mode scanning
device wlan_scan_sta # 802.11 STA mode scanning

device iwi # For Intel Pro Wireless 2200bg

device firmware # firmware assist module

This is the output of ifconfig:

iwi0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
ether 00:0e:35:fd:aa:0f
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
status: no carrier
ssid "" channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11b)
authmode OPEN privacy OFF bmiss 10 scanvalid 60 bgscan
bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi11b 7 roam:rate11b 1 bintval 0

After seting debug.iwi=1 this is what I get when I try to bring the
interface up:

$ ifconfig iwi0 up

iwi_newstate: INIT -> INIT flags 0x0
enter FW state 1
firmware_get: failed to load firmware image iwi_bss
iwi0: could not load firmware
exit FW state 1
iwi_newstate: INIT -> INIT flags 0x0

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.


2009/4/22 Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta@xxxxxxxxx>:
Thanks Patrick.  After updating my /boot/loader.conf, it now contains:

legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1
iwi_bss_load="YES"
iwi_ibss_load="YES"
iwi_monitor_load="YES"
wlan_scan_ap_load="YES"
wlan_scan_sta_load="YES"
wlan_wep_load="YES"
wlan_tkip_load="YES"
wlan_ccmp_load="YES"

I no longer receive the error message about failing to load the
firmware. However, when I enter "ifconfig iwi0 up scan", I receive the
following in the xconsole:

iwi0: firmware stuck in state4, resetting

Any idea what that means, or what state4 is?  (Sorry, I'm very new to FreeBSD.)

Thanks,
Daniel

2009/4/22 Patrick Lamaizière <patfbsd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Le Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:04:41 -0400,
Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta@xxxxxxxxx>:

After re-reading man iwi, I noticed that it says:

"This driver requires firmware to be loaded before it will work. You
need to obtain iwicontrol(8)  from the IWI web page listed below to
accomplish loading the firmware before ifconfig(8)  will work."

I'm going to look into this. Sounds like this may be the problem. Do
you think so?

No, before FreeBSD 7 you needed to download the firmware.
There is a port in /usr/ports/net/iwi-firmware but it is only for
FreeBSD < 7

You don't need anything on FreeBSD 7.x and you it seems you are not
using the right manual page for 7.1:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=iwi&manpath=FreeBSD+7.1-RELEASE&format=html

Regards.


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