From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 3 21:23:19 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 14DB01065674 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 21:23:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kerneljack@gmail.com) Received: from yx-out-2324.google.com (yx-out-2324.google.com [74.125.44.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA7F58FC13 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 21:23:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kerneljack@gmail.com) Received: by yx-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 8so1005445yxb.13 for ; Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:23:18 -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:reply-to :to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=dm6HG7OOpVm4DEXrOXbpMpLKKOmxUt6qjvALUd+KOwU=; b=Ww55S9Cb9eU4LBIP1RgiBVADyFwg1VuqgKxyoErNSvLUrMjrlmDBey+8QnJ43+6mIY 3Bv+dOxdtOiChP7xbAhtQFopYN0UsvhaOWg6Ys34aovs1efCSxaxP2Nl1H1h0EUVEwlr usNli54dfIil8HZnhFOvU1hGpyltbRyek/RpM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:references; b=j8KwEYETfSNQu7wKQpJj25E+TZWiHIhyXm6KGJAMPZD2XnCPdZFTNtYT9eeBVKEprq O3KkSkybhcBLoCn09JPxMiQzqcqenpr88liuBmqo4kY2lQX+h2OKL9yvVT/4oSY+GrXD Sek3pctXsHroppX9GPvd49CIWmW9r62JoNTmc= Received: by 10.142.139.14 with SMTP id m14mr297857wfd.207.1225747397563; Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:23:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.156.8 with HTTP; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 13:23:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 21:23:17 +0000 From: "Khusro Jaleel" To: "Stephen Montgomery-Smith" In-Reply-To: <490DD114.3000901@math.missouri.edu> 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: 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 Reply-To: kerneljack@kerneljack.com 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 21:23:19 -0000 Thanks for all your kind replies, Stephen got it right! All I needed to do was add a line like he suggested in /etc/rc.conf and everything just worked straight away after that. No need to get firmware or anything else. I did however manage to completely spontaneously rebooot my laptop by trying to run "/etc/rc.d/netif restart" a few too many times, which I thought should never happen in FreeBSD ... but anyway, all is fine now. Thanks for all your help. 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. Thanks. >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> > >