Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 20:53:39 +1100 From: Nick Withers <nick@nickwithers.com> To: Jonathan Horne <freebsd@dfwlp.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i finally got wireless working Message-ID: <20061217205339.019bc0f6.nick@nickwithers.com> In-Reply-To: <200612170107.05883.freebsd@dfwlp.com> References: <200612170002.11022.freebsd@dfwlp.com> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612162238110.6022@liam.billschoolcraft.com> <200612170107.05883.freebsd@dfwlp.com>
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On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:07:05 -0600 Jonathan Horne <freebsd@dfwlp.com> 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
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