From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 17 09:54:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 087EE16A417 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 09:54:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nick@nickwithers.com) Received: from mail.nickwithers.com (mail.manrags.com [203.219.206.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D0A643CC2 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 09:53:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nick@nickwithers.com) Received: from presario.shmon.net (presario.shmon.net [10.0.0.254]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.nickwithers.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 929853A45C; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 20:53:44 +1100 (EST) Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 20:53:39 +1100 From: Nick Withers To: Jonathan Horne Message-Id: <20061217205339.019bc0f6.nick@nickwithers.com> In-Reply-To: <200612170107.05883.freebsd@dfwlp.com> References: <200612170002.11022.freebsd@dfwlp.com> <200612170107.05883.freebsd@dfwlp.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.10 (GTK+ 2.10.6; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-nickwithers-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-nickwithers-MailScanner-From: nick@nickwithers.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i finally got wireless working X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 09:54:09 -0000 On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:07:05 -0600 Jonathan Horne wrote: > On Sunday 17 December 2006 00:40, Bill-Schoolcraft wrote: > > Good work Jonathan, > > > > As usual with fellow FreeBSD users, any information about how you > > got past your problem is stuff Unix folks like me love to hear. > > I actually save success stories like yours to help me out with > > wireless issues. > > > > I can only speak for myself but I'd love to hear how ya did it. > > thanks! i was quite proud of my efforts myself! its a pretty good > feeling to complete a project in an area where i have little > expertise (especially when (good) internet docs are few and far > between). after all the docs i read, and bad advice i followed, > bad decisions i made, it all boiled down to a pretty simple recipe: (snip) > one big mistake i made, was building world up to 6.2-RC1. there > was one good article about installing freebsd on an ibm t42 (found > it on google), but it didnt have any info on getting wireless to > auto start. after i had wireless manually up and running > initially, i then built world, and updated. next boot, firmware > and modules would not load. i had tweaked some other things, so i > backed those changes off, and worked round and round until i > decided to just do a quick reinstall. this time, i didnt use > 6.1-RELEASE, but i did 6.2-RC1. same behavior, and this is when i > figured out that the only time it really worked like the web page > depicted, was when i was on 6.1-RELEASE. so i tried cvsuping to > -p11, and things still worked fine. this is the only laptop i have > (thus, my only wireless computer), so when 6.2 comes out, ill be > pretty nervous about upgrading until i read that everything i > kosher with iwi- support. It works fine. Please see the UPDATING entry from the 2006-07-11, i.e.: ____ 20060711: The iwi(4) was updated to use the firmware(9) framework. In order for it to work you need a port change from net/iwi-firmware to net/iwi-firmware-kmod. ____ > cheers, > jonathan -- Nick Withers email: nick@nickwithers.com Web: http://www.nickwithers.com Mobile: +61 414 397 446