Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:15:13 +0200 From: Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu> To: Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Message-ID: <49EF7AD1.5020709@eskk.nu> In-Reply-To: <b6c05a470904221204v23093c9di9cd38e826046d969@mail.gmail.com> References: <b6c05a470904221204v23093c9di9cd38e826046d969@mail.gmail.com>
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Daniel Underwood skrev: > I'm having trouble getting wireless to work on my FreeBSD laptop. > > I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE. My wireless device is Intel > PRO/Wireless 2200BG. > > After typing "ifconfig iwi0", I get the following: > > iwi0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 > ether 00:16:6f:91:d5:58 > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect > status: no carrier > ssid "" channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11b) > authmode WPA1+WPA2/802.11i privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF bmiss 10 > scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi11b 7 > roam:rate11b 1 roaming MANUAL bintval 0 > > Now I (repeatedly) receive the following error messages in my xconsole: > > firmware_get: failed to load firmware image iwi_bss > iwi0: could not load firmware > > My /etc/rc.conf contains: > > ifconfig_iwi0="WPA DHCP" > > My /boot/loader.conf contains: > > wlan_scan_ap_load="YES" > wlan_scan_sta_load="YES" > wlan_wep_load="YES" > wlan_tkip_load="YES" > wlan_ccmp_load="YES" > > After typing "kldstat", I receive the following (note that iwi_bss.ko exists): > > Id Refs Address Size Name > 1 18 0xc0400000 97f830 kernel > 2 1 0xc0d80000 6a2c4 acpi.ko > 3 1 0xc3e3c000 22000 linux.ko > 4 1 0xc408f000 6000 i915.ko > 5 1 0xc40a2000 f000 drm.ko > 6 1 0xc4280000 f000 if_iwi.ko > 7 1 0xc42ae000 30000 iwi_bss.ko > > Please help me figure this out. I've been trying to get wireless to work > for 3 days now, and I've searched and searched for a solution. Let me > know if you need more information. > > Thanks, > Daniel > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Have you created a wpa_supplicant.conf file http://www.se.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html /Leslie
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