From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 10 05:35:37 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 DF806106566B for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:35:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from gaia.nimnet.asn.au (nimbin.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.45.143]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 566338FC0C for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:35:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from localhost (smithi@localhost) by gaia.nimnet.asn.au (8.8.8/8.8.8R1.5) with SMTP id PAA23513; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:34:58 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:34:57 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: besideinfo In-Reply-To: <549501.34648.qm@web43141.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Andrey , sam@freebsd.org, Yousif Hassan , Benjamin Close , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org 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: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:35:38 -0000 On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, besideinfo wrote: > --- 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. Hmm. On re-reading the whole thread I notice that you didn't show what Andrey asked about, and while I don't know if it should actually affect the module loading, it's said that you need this in your loader.conf: : Also make sure if license acknowledge variable is set (use kenv on : this purpose): : # kenv | grep 'wpi' : legal.intel_wpi.license_ack="1" Otherwise it does look like your 6.3 install is missing something. cheers, Ian (Sam, sorry if I complicated matters, but many new users don't know about using 'kldstat -v' to check modules, in my humble experience)