Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 18:30:50 +0100 From: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> To: "Eygene Ryabinkin" <rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru> Cc: kerneljack@kerneljack.com, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems configuring wireless using iwi Message-ID: <3a142e750811030930j7916137drfe0c72dc4dfd873a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3q3LHpRtXrg%2BxqcqNOM7j33dNpE@Nxyl89WskzuM4RJ7pF/cdJZbOMo> References: <e1e9e88d0811020104v57552a9ej8ddda0f076c2f744@mail.gmail.com> <490DD114.3000901@math.missouri.edu> <e1e9e88d0811030222v571d07e3pc27a96465a76f318@mail.gmail.com> <3q3LHpRtXrg%2BxqcqNOM7j33dNpE@Nxyl89WskzuM4RJ7pF/cdJZbOMo>
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On 11/3/08, Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru> wrote: > Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:22:12AM +0000, Khusro Jaleel wrote: >> Am I supposed to download the firmware from somewhere or not? > > It should be built as a kernel module. In 7.x it is already included > to the base system, so there is no need for the port. > > As written in iwi(4), include the following devices to the kernel > configuration, > ----- > device iwi > device pci > device wlan > device firmware > ----- > and make sure that the iwifw module is built. If you have no > 'makeoptions MODULES_OVERRIDE="<something>"' directives in the kernel > configuration, then you should already have the module. If not, add the > 'iwifw' to the MODULES_OVERRIDE contents. The actual module should be > in the /boot/kernel, named iwifw.ko. OP is using CURRENT where iwifw.ko is split in several files. It is not required to build custom kernel just to have iwi support. > Your error messages indicate that you likely have no /boot/kernel/iwifw.ko. > Of course, your actual mileage may vary. > > For the custom kernels, make sure that you have some 802.11 stuff > included: > ----- > device wlan_wep # 802.11 WEP support > device wlan_ccmp # 802.11 CCMP support > device wlan_tkip # 802.11 TKIP support > ----- > The actual devices depend on your needs, but it is safe to include them > all -- you can never know what encryption you'll be using. > -- More debug output from iwi would be more useful. Something like: # sysctl dev.iwi.0.debug=1
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