Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 17:31:12 +0000 From: Stacey Roberts <stacey@vickiandstacey.com> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: Benjamin Close <Benjamin.Close@clearchain.com>, Arne Schwabe <schwabe@uni-paderborn.de>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wpi: "Radio transmitter is turned off" Message-ID: <20080209173112.GI1149@crom.vickiandstacey.com> In-Reply-To: <20080116165557.92789ba3.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <20080116144801.cbc5640d.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <478E6EA3.9010504@uni-paderborn.de> <478E7A2E.7050403@clearchain.com> <20080116165557.92789ba3.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hi Bill!
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Bill Moran wrote:
> In response to Benjamin Close <Benjamin.Close@clearchain.com>:
>
> > Arne Schwabe wrote:
> > > Bill Moran schrieb:
> > >> I'm running 7 on an IBM Lenovo T61.
> > >>
> > >> I'm having some weirdness with the 802.11 card. It's a Intel Pro
> > >> 3945ABG, which appears to be supported by the wpi driver. Rebuilding
> > >> the kernel with wpi support causes the NIC to be detected and a
> > >> wpi0 interface is created, but when I do "ifconfig wpi0 up" I get
> > >> a message that the radio transmitter is turned off.
> > >>
> > >> ?
> > >>
> > >> I've searched through the BIOS and the card is enabled everywhere I can
> > >> find. Perusing both the ifconfig and the wpi man page hasn't clued me
> > >> in to what I can do to turn the radio on. My google searches have
> > >> turned up nothing but pointers to the wpi driver source code.
> > >>
> > >> Any advice/pointers will be welcome at this stage. :)
> > >>
> > >>
> > > Only to rule out the obvious. Is the wlan switch on your notebook in
> > > the right position?
> >
> Nice :)
So was this your problem?
I have the same notebook and have done the same procedure as you - enabling the hardware in
the kernel, but the switch on the front of the laptop is set to "On" - always..,
However, although ifconfig show the card okay:
$ ifconfig wpi0
wpi0: flags=8803<UP,BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
ether 00:1c:bf:5f:57:6f
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
status: no carrier
ssid "" channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11b)
authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 50 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 bintval 0
$
I get the following each time I try to ifconfig wpi0 up:
Feb 9 17:30:30 ibm-t61p kernel: firmware_get: failed to load firmware image wpifw
Feb 9 17:30:30 ibm-t61p kernel: wpi0: could not load firmware image 'wpifw'
Feb 9 17:30:30 ibm-t61p kernel: wpi0: A problem occurred loading the firmware to the driver
Feb 9 17:30:55 ibm-t61p kernel: firmware_get: failed to load firmware image wpifw
Feb 9 17:30:55 ibm-t61p kernel: wpi0: could not load firmware image 'wpifw'
Feb 9 17:30:55 ibm-t61p kernel: wpi0: A problem occurred loading the firmware to the driver
Thanks.
Regards,
S Roberts
>
> --
> Bill Moran
> http://www.potentialtech.com
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20080209173112.GI1149>