From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 29 09:52:19 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C64610656A2 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:52:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a.pirko@inode.at) Received: from mx.inode.at (mx03.lb01.inode.at [62.99.145.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 028778FC27 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:52:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a.pirko@inode.at) Received: from [84.119.8.162] (port=7993 helo=oh-sub1.local) by smartmx-03.inode.at with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KZ0eP-0001Qf-5g; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:52:17 +0200 Message-ID: <48B7C6CF.6020603@inode.at> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:52:15 +0200 From: Armin Pirkovitsch User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080811) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lothar Braun References: <48B7ABF4.1010900@inode.at> <48B79C6D.4060709@lobraun.de> In-Reply-To: <48B79C6D.4060709@lobraun.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: if_iwi, boot firmware X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:52:19 -0000 I guess I missed that part - works now, thx! Lothar Braun wrote: > Armin Pirkovitsch wrote: >> Since my update from 7.0 STABLE to 8.0 CURRENT yesterday my wifi device >> won't work any more. Loading the if_iwi and iwi_bss module works fine >> and iwi0 is found - however as soon as I start wpa_supplicant I receive >> the following error: >> >> iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete >> iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null) >> >> The configuration as it is worked fine in 7.0 and I haven't found >> anythung in UPDATING which would indicate that I have to change >> something. > > 20080420: > The 802.11 wireless support was redone to enable multi-bss > operation on devices that are capable. The underlying device > is no longer used directly but instead wlanX devices are > cloned with ifconfig. This requires changes to rc.conf files. > For example, change: > ifconfig_ath0="WPA DHCP" > to > wlans_ath0=wlan0 > ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP" > see rc.conf(5) for more details. In addition, mergemaster of > /etc/rc.d is highly recommended. Simultaneous update of userland > and kernel wouldn't hurt either. > > As part of the multi-bss changes the wlan_scan_ap and wlan_scan_sta > modules were merged into the base wlan module. All references > to these modules (e.g. in kernel config files) must be removed. -- Armin Pirkovitsch a.pirko@inode.at