Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:11:24 +0200 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=EDa?=" <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com> To: "Andrew Thompson" <thompsa@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Can't load firmware Message-ID: <1bd550a00806251011j15a98818ke2c688ddc7f6d9ce@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1bd550a00806251010w40a32967gf3d7cb6a8c876dc3@mail.gmail.com> References: <1bd550a00806250827ga4607b2g412d3e7c673f71cb@mail.gmail.com> <20080625155617.GB98532@citylink.fud.org.nz> <1bd550a00806251010w40a32967gf3d7cb6a8c876dc3@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Fernando Apestegu=EDa <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org> wr= ote: >> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 05:27:47PM +0200, Fernando Apestegu?a wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I'm facing some problems with my IPW2200 NIC. It seems I can't load >>> the firmware (from system log): >>> >>> firmware_get: failed to load firmware image iwi_bss >>> >>> Both if_ipw and ipw_bss modules are loaded. >>> >>> This very same computer works fine with linux, including loading the fi= rmware. >> >> Have you set legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=3D1 in /boot/loader.conf? > > No. I'm aware of the iwi man page, but after I did that I got a > message in /var/log/messages complaining about the > legal.intel_ipw.license_ack variable, not the one specified in the iwi > man page. > > I set the last one to 1 but I got the firmware loading problem. If > this has changed, I suppose it should be fixed in the documentation > IMHO. > > Any more ideas? Any debugging hints? > > Thanks in advance Oops, sorry I forgot: I'm using 7.0 RELEASE. Thanks > >> >> >> Andrew >> >
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