From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 21 16:52:45 2005 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 2F68C16A41F for ; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:52:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-mobile@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3D4243D9C for ; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:52:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-mobile@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Ep79u-00076g-Kq for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:49:46 +0100 Received: from r5k4.chello.upc.cz ([86.49.10.4]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:49:46 +0100 Received: from martinkov by r5k4.chello.upc.cz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:49:46 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org From: martinko Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:47:18 +0100 Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <200512201856.jBKIumrM055163@gate.bitblocks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: r5k4.chello.upc.cz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051205 X-Accept-Language: sk, cs, en-gb, en-us, en In-Reply-To: <200512201856.jBKIumrM055163@gate.bitblocks.com> Sender: news Subject: Re: iwi or ndis for Intel Pro/wireless 2200BG 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: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:52:45 -0000 Bakul Shah wrote: > Which driver is recommended for Intel Pro/wireless 2200BG, > iwi or ndis? I am using iwi and while not entirely stable it > used to work reasonably well including suspend/resume. Now > it silently reboots the machine when I try to restart it > (when connectivity with the AP is lost). I am running fairly > recent -current. Thanks for any recommendation > > -- bakul hello, i'm trying to make iwi work in IBSS mode so that i can connect it with a windows laptop : i `kldload if_iwi`, then `iwicontrol iwi0 -d /boot/firmware/ -m ibss`, and i get the following: Dec 17 21:02:18 mb-aw1n-bsd kernel: iwi0: timeout waiting for firmware initialization to complete Dec 17 21:02:18 mb-aw1n-bsd kernel: iwi0: could not load boot firmware i can't figure out what's the problem. :-(( help please! cheers, martin ps: freebsd 6.0-stable, iwi0: mem 0xff9fa000-0xff9fafff irq 5 at device 3.0 on pci2 pps: originally asked at http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/forum/read.php?f=1&i=738&t=738#reply_738