From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 28 16:05:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 212C516A4E0 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:05:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from server.baldwin.cx (66-23-211-162.clients.speedfactory.net [66.23.211.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 861A143D81 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:05:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost.corp.yahoo.com (john@localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6SG5DTW087122; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:05:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) From: John Baldwin To: Erik =?iso-8859-15?q?N=F8rgaard?= Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:00:13 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <44C8D7FE.4080108@locolomo.org> <200607271739.48433.jhb@freebsd.org> <44CA2CA1.3040801@locolomo.org> In-Reply-To: <44CA2CA1.3040801@locolomo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607281200.14440.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (server.baldwin.cx [127.0.0.1]); Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:05:13 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1624/Thu Jul 27 13:11:25 2006 on server.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=4.2 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on server.baldwin.cx Cc: Don Wilde , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem (maybe a solution) loading iwi firmware: firmware_get: failed to load firmware image iwi_bss X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:05:17 -0000 On Friday 28 July 2006 11:26, Erik N=F8rgaard wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: > > On Thursday 27 July 2006 14:28, Erik N=F8rgaard wrote: > >> There is some development, I'm not sure if it has been imported into t= he > >> source tree yet, > >> > >> http://people.freebsd.org/~mlaier/new_iwi/ > >=20 > > Yes, it is in -current and I believe -stable now, and this just works f= ine=20 > > with the iwi-firmware-kmod port. > >=20 > > In short, upgrade to 6.1-stable, install the iwi-firmware-kmod port, an= d=20 > > everything should Just Work(tm). It does here on my laptop (albeit=20 running=20 > > 7-current). >=20 > The new_iwi has not been backported to -stable yet. I tried to use just > the iwi-firmware-kmod port, disabling dhcp on that interface and > configuring manually, loading modules in order: firmware, iwi_bss and > if_iwi. If it uses firmware_get() it qualifies as new_iwi for now. You should not= =20 have to explicitly load iwi_bss, firmware(9) will do that for you. > Note the interupt storm when the module is first loaded, but not the > second time. That's because it only logs a message once. =2D-=20 John Baldwin