From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 9 21:50:42 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A4C91065672 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2008 21:50:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from besideinfo@yahoo.com) Received: from n78.bullet.mail.sp1.yahoo.com (n78.bullet.mail.sp1.yahoo.com [98.136.44.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F0098FC1B for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2008 21:50:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from besideinfo@yahoo.com) Received: from [216.252.122.216] by n78.bullet.mail.sp1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 09 Apr 2008 21:50:41 -0000 Received: from [69.147.84.88] by t1.bullet.sp1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 09 Apr 2008 21:50:41 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp204.mail.sp1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 09 Apr 2008 21:50:41 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-5 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 537916.81267.bm@omp204.mail.sp1.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 95813 invoked by uid 60001); 9 Apr 2008 21:50:41 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=v36u7HjZGFng2O+/J5TyLZMsvywjHbOSzttA281095e7NxV3Uzw4NGrPnhxLTqEJCoU8CnrOD1D5Ca3xQjD7gvP8KYgG1fo0RgShpcwYT4ot2qm4Bm9vxJ6CqIiMW69JGp5Aeeo03LWcFD72S8Xk8OyeFsfpRDCyKB5eyPY1c90=; X-YMail-OSG: IubLHCsVM1ngMfL4GaegpJO9sMhS556WuLjB88Fa Received: from [151.92.176.5] by web43138.mail.sp1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:50:40 PDT Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 14:50:40 -0700 (PDT) From: besideinfo To: Yousif Hassan In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <424763.95792.qm@web43138.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Cc: Andrey , Benjamin Close , Ian Smith , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, sam@freebsd.org, besideinfo Subject: Re: Wireless on hp 6710b X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:50:42 -0000 --- Yousif Hassan wrote: > From: "besideinfo" > > > > --- Ian Smith wrote: > > > >> On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Benjamin Close wrote: > >> > besideinfo wrote: > >> > > --- Yousif Hassan > >> wrote: > >> > > > >> > > > >> > >> I don't really understand what you mean > here. > >> Do > >> > >> you mean they do not show > >> > >> up in kldstat at all, or that they do show > up > >> in > >> > >> kldstat but are still > >> > >> "missing" in terms of being attached? > (Both > >> > >> scenarios possible). > >> > >> [..] > >> > >> To besideinfo: > >> > >> In which case you should use kldstat -v to show > all > >> in-kernel modules. > >> This can be a big list, so perhaps best search > for > >> 'missing' ones with: > >> > >> kldstat -v | egrep 'wpi|wlan' > >> > >> If they're there then there's no need to load > them > >> in /boot/loader.conf > >> > >> cheers, Ian > >> > > > > As you asked following the output for kldstat -v > | > > egrep 'wpi|wlan' > > > > freebsd-box# kldstat -v | egrep 'wpi|wlan' > > 5 5 0xc07c7000 1edf8 wlan.ko > > 4 wlan > > 7 1 0xc07e8000 26414 wpifw.ko > > 5 wpifw_fw > > 8 1 0xc080f000 1b10 wlan_xauth.ko > > 6 wlan_xauth > > 9 1 0xc0811000 2d08 wlan_wep.ko > > 7 wlan_wep > > 10 1 0xc0814000 6d04 wlan_ccmp.ko > > 8 wlan_ccmp > > 11 1 0xc081b000 4000 wlan_tkip.ko > > 9 wlan_tkip > > > > I try to use kldload, and the result make me > believe > > that I'm missing the wpi driver or part of it. > > > > freebsd-box# kldload if_wpi > > kldload: can't load if_wpi: No such file or > directory > > > > freebsd-box# kldload wlan_scan_sta > > kldload: can't load wlan_scan_sta: No such file or > > directory > > > > I'm thinking to reinstall freebsd maybe I did > > something wrong from the beginning. > > > > greetings > > It's becoming pretty clear that the reason you can't > load the wpi module is > because you may be missing some kernel module files > (this is why we asked > what happens if you manually kldload if_wpi). > > Do you see an if_wpi.ko (and the other "missing" > modules) in /boot/kernel/? As I said before the modules if_wpi, wlan_scan_sta and wlan_scan_ap do not exists. I try to locate them but without result. > If not, search for them elsewhere on the system - if > they're in the wrong > directory, move them into /boot/kernel. > > If they're completely missing, I wonder if you > rebuilt a kernel incorrectly, Yes I rebuilt the kernel, and I followed the instruction. I made some changing on the kernel configuration files, but the compilation process was completed without any error. > or anything like that. You don't have to reinstall > FBSD. Just rebuild the > kernel according to the instructions in the FreeBSD > Handbook. Make sure all > the object binaries are cleaned out before you > start. That should rebuild > the modules, too, and when you install the kernel, > it will put them into > /boot/kernel Please Yousif what you mean by "Make sure all the object binaries are cleaned out". If it can help, I can post my configuration file. regards __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com