From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 3 12:40:40 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BA961065670 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 12:40:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: from hs-out-0708.google.com (hs-out-0708.google.com [64.233.178.251]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 317CE8FC12 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 12:40:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: by hs-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id 54so1001134hsz.11 for ; Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:40:39 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=ait3o06GRHgOYShLyxqQwXVMVqf8VDazzK7Xj961krk=; b=pWzhZzOwL/Rd745ATEGhjowHY1YOuIDVlzWWbKS2oieUaTCZr+3vqVarwhnMKUmDXU Y0aIqvxi4rL1VKN74HcRQoQx5zI1J63IlsE0OjK3d87eOE4ZUwSQakFH/sCehKZGner3 LGOfxQyWQ+2Ya468tW8GYmO/LnY4awIzPCeY0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=PdpFmeGLvy3dXbh40HX8d0KATPBSsPiUSgM8Y+P419F/Vfpjc8twwYtEyxTmTvlsHI EuQAIM10bnVA7rj2LpWNe5JaRmcJeL9jgZsjBMiEiYDPTNAnY98m0n3ka9CupG5SP+4D JxuGUz+2fL6gaHODvEje32EEoLeh+999ikQjw= Received: by 10.231.15.205 with SMTP id l13mr514iba.0.1225716038971; Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:40:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.231.11.72 with HTTP; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 04:40:38 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3a142e750811030440u66c6e320sd2f1a414480d27d9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 13:40:38 +0100 From: "Paul B. Mahol" To: kerneljack@kerneljack.com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <490DD114.3000901@math.missouri.edu> Cc: Stephen Montgomery-Smith , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems configuring wireless using iwi 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: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:40:40 -0000 On 11/3/08, Khusro Jaleel wrote: > Thanks for your reply, Stephen, just a few other questions: > > Am I supposed to download the firmware from somewhere or not? > > I tried going to /usr/ports/net/iwi-firmware/ and iwi-firmware-kmod > and running "make install" but both of them error out saying something > about "please run make rmconfig and remove CONTROL" but when I run > "make rmconfig" I get "No user-configurable ...." something like that. > > I'm still not sure whether I need to get the firmware from somewhere > or not? I hope you can clarify this. My /boot/kernel has those > iwi_bss.ko etc files that I mentioned, but I'm not sure if those are > firmware or not? Should I get the firmware from somewhere and put it > in /boot/firmware instead? iwi_bss.ko module and others are firmware for iwi and their Makefiles are located in /sys/modules/iwifw Firmware files are located in: /sys/contrib/dev/iwi/ > I will try putting those lines /etc/rc.conf tonight and will see what > happens. > > Thanks again. > > On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith > wrote: >> FreeBSD CURRENT has a different approach to wireless cards. Somewhere in >> /etc/rc.conf you need lines like >> wlans_iwi0="wlan0" >> and then all future ifconfig command should refer to wlan0 instead of >> iwi0. >> >> I am not sure if this will fix your problem or not, but you must have not >> done this somewhere, otherwise ifconfig would have listed wlan0 as well as >> iwi0. >> >> If you are new to FreeBSD, you might prefer to use FreeBSD-STABLE instead. >> I think iwi is already a part of that. >> >> >> Khusro Jaleel wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm new to FreeBSD-CURRENT and am having problems getting my wireless >>> to work on my laptop. It is an old Centrino ASUS laptop with built-in >>> IPW2200 wireless. I've had no problems getting wireless to work on >>> this for the past few years now with many flavors of linux and of >>> course Windows so I'm sure it should also work in FreeBSD without any >>> issues. >>> >>> However, I'm not having much luck. I've followed the instructions in >>> the Handbook's Wireless page and read the iwi(4) man page and added >>> the following to my /boot/loader.conf: >>> >>> ------------- >>> legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 >>> if_iwi_load="YES" >>> wlan_load="YES" >>> firmware_load="YES" >>> iwi_bss_load="YES" >>> iwi_ibss_load="YES" >>> iwi_monitor_load="YES" >>> hw.psm.synaptics_support=1 >>> -------------- >>> >>> When I reboot and do a "dmesg | grep iwi" I get: >>> >>> ---------- >>> iwi0: mem 0xff9de000-0xff9defff irq 4 >>> at device 2.0 on pci2 >>> iwi0: [ITHREAD] >>> iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete >>> iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null) >>> iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete >>> iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null) >>> iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete >>> iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null) >>> iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete >>> iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null) >>> iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete >>> iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null) >>> iwi0: mem 0xff9de000-0xff9defff irq 4 >>> at device 2.0 on pci2 >>> iwi0: [ITHREAD] >>> iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete >>> iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null) >>> iwi0: mem 0xff9de000-0xff9defff irq 4 >>> at device 2.0 on pci2 >>> iwi0: [ITHREAD] >>> iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete >>> iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null) >>> iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete >>> iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null) >>> iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete >>> iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null) >>> iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete >>> iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null) >>> iwi0: mem 0xff9de000-0xff9defff irq 4 >>> at device 2.0 on pci2 >>> iwi0: [ITHREAD] >>> iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete >>> iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null) >>> ---------- >>> >>> Am I forgetting to load the firmware somehow? In /boot/kernel, I see >>> the following files: >>> >>> ----------- >>> [root@asus ~]# ls -l /boot/kernel/iwi_* >>> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 197996 Oct 31 23:56 /boot/kernel/iwi_bss.ko >>> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 190182 Oct 31 23:56 /boot/kernel/iwi_ibss.ko >>> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 194760 Oct 31 23:56 >>> /boot/kernel/iwi_monitor.ko >>> ----------- >>> >>> ifconfig: >>> bge0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu >>> 1500 >>> options=9b >>> ether 00:11:2f:0c:e8:7f >>> inet 192.168.1.70 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 >>> media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) >>> status: active >>> fwe0: flags=8802 metric 0 mtu 1500 >>> options=8 >>> ether 02:e0:18:1b:1f:63 >>> ch 1 dma -1 >>> fwip0: flags=8802 metric 0 mtu 1500 >>> lladdr 0.e0.18.0.3.1b.1f.63.a.2.ff.fe.0.0.0.0 >>> iwi0: flags=8803 metric 0 mtu 2290 >>> ether 00:0e:35:0d:7c:65 >>> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect) >>> status: no carrier >>> plip0: flags=108810 metric 0 >>> mtu >>> 1500 >>> lo0: flags=8049 metric 0 mtu 16384 >>> inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6 >>> inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 >>> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 >>> >>> But if I try to do "ifconfig iwi0 up" I get: >>> >>> ---------- >>> iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete >>> iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null) >>> ---------- >>> >>> Any help appreciated. 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