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Date:      Thu, 22 May 2008 14:04:46 +0100
From:      Vince Hoffman <jhary@unsane.co.uk>
To:        peter harrison <four.harrisons@virgin.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=EDa?= <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: ipw2200 freebsd 7 firmware problem
Message-ID:  <48356F6E.9080809@unsane.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20080522091426.GA39680@desktop.piggybox>
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peter harrison wrote:
> Thursday, 22 May 2008 at  9:13:41 +0100, Vince Hoffman said:
>> Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
>>> On 5/22/08, Vince Hoffman <jhary@unsane.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Vince Hoffman <jhary@unsane.co.uk>
>>>> wrote:
<snip>
>>>>>> Have you read the manpage for iwi?
>>>>>>
>>>>> No, I tried with iwi-firmware and iwicontrol and none of them existed.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> no ports are needed the firmware is now in the base system, Just add the
>>>>>> entries as specified in this snippet from man iwi
>>>>>>
>>>>> So... shouldn't this port be removed?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I'm pretty sure that things changed between 6.x and 7.x, I'd imagine the
>>>> port is needed for <7.x
>>>>
>>>>>>  Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the
>>>>>>    following lines in loader.conf(5):
>>>>>>
>>>>>>          if_iwi_load="YES"
>>>>>>          wlan_load="YES"
>>>>>>          firmware_load="YES"
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    In both cases, place the following lines in loader.conf(5) to load
>>>> the
>>>>>>    firmware modules:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>          iwi_bss_load="YES"
>>>>>>          iwi_ibss_load="YES"
>>>>>>          iwi_monitor_load="YES"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  This driver requires firmware to be loaded before it will work.  For
>>>>>> the loaded firmware to work the license at
>>>>>>    /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_iwi/LICENSE must be
>>>> agreed to and the
>>>>>> follow-ing line be added to loader.conf(5):
>>>>>>
>>>>>>          legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> I'll try it. But AFAIK, I have to recompile the kernel cause the
>>>>> "device iwi" line is missing.
>>>>>
>>>>> Am i right?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I think they should all be loadable as modules if they arent in generic.
>>>>
>>>> To try without rebooting I believe the commands you want are:
>>>> kenv legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1
>>>> kldload if_iwi
>>>> kldload wlan
>>>> kldload firmware
>>>> kldload iwi_bss
>>>> kldload iwi_ibss
>>>> kldload iwi_monitor
>>>>
>>>> However, I just had a look in my /boot/kernel for the if_iwi module and its
>>>> not there so you may be correct. (I'm a touch supprised as the do exist on
>>>> my i386 box)
>>> The same on my machine. The line is not in GENERIC and that modules
>>> don't exist. I will recompile my module as soon as I have some spare
>>> time.
>>> Thanks for your help.
>>>
>> In theory you should be able to just
>> cd /usr/src/sys/modules/iwi
>> make && make install
>> cd /usr/src/sys/modules/iwifw
>> make && make install
>>
>>
>> without rebuilding the entire kernel. I'm just puzzled why they dont
>> build by default.
> 
> I'm running a stock 7.0-STABLE with GENERIC and a default make.conf and I get the iwi modules no problem. I just followed the instructions in the man page and was up and running in 5 minutes.
> 
> 
Are you running AMD64? the modules are there on my i386 laptop but not
my AMD64 server (I dont use iwi on either though.)

vince

> Peter Harrison
> 
>>
>> Vince
>>
>>
>>> Best Regards
>>>
>>>> regards,
>>>> Vince
>>>>
>>>>
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