Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:08:42 -0700 From: Peter Losher <plosher-keyword-freebsd.a36e57@plosh.net> To: Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best way to load iwi firmware for wpa_supplicant? Message-ID: <200509201308.46690.plosher@plosh.net> In-Reply-To: <20050920091648.41e2bf16.lists@yazzy.org> References: <200509142146.42969.plosher@plosh.net> <200509191617.49953.plosher@plosh.net> <20050920091648.41e2bf16.lists@yazzy.org>
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On Tuesday 20 September 2005 12:16 am, Marcin Jessa wrote:
> Why are you loading the module at all and not compile it into your kernel?
Because I want to run a baseline GENERIC kernel and only load those kernel
modules I need w/o having to recompile the whole kernel to test it. :)
It doesn't matter if it's in the kernel anyway (tried that too); at bootup
after iwi0 is detected, it gets to /etc/network.subr, tries to 'ifconfig up'
the interface before invoking wpa_supplicant, and it spits back "iwi0: Please
load firmware". Chicken, meet egg... :(
A workaround I have is to have it load the firmware at the top
of /etc/network.subr, before ifconfig is invoked. That works for my WPA
network... to a point, it associates, dhclient gets a lease, and it works
well until the next WPA rekey in around five minutes, then it loses signal.
And when I try associating w/ a WEP network, console just spits out a stream
of "iwi0: fatal error". All that's defined in that case is:
network={
ssid="Homeport" (SSID is broadcasted)
scan_ssid=0
key_mgmt=NONE
}
-Peter
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