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Date:      Mon, 1 May 2006 00:20:42 +0200
From:      Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        rmgls@wanadoo.fr
Subject:   Re: iwi driver
Message-ID:  <200605010020.50468.max@love2party.net>
In-Reply-To: <4454F7AC.3070904@errno.com>
References:  <20060430125904.E7BF47000091@mwinf1306.wanadoo.fr> <4454F7AC.3070904@errno.com>

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On Sunday 30 April 2006 19:45, Sam Leffler wrote:
> rmgls@wanadoo.fr wrote:
> > hello all,
> >
> > since the last update dated
> > Sat Apr 29, (on current),
> > the iwi driver does not work:
> > cannot change any achannel, and no association!
> > the old version of the driver works.
> >
> > ...
> > ;* Copyright Sam Leffler  */
> >
> > 	previous:
> > /*	$FreeBSD: src/sys/dev/iwi/if_iwi.c,v 1.27 2006/01/29 12:03:03 damien
> > Exp $	*/
> >
> > the nic is seated onboard of a s5 Sony laptop.
> > 		dmesg:
> > ...
> > firmware_get: failed to load firmware image iwi_bss
> > iwi0: could not load firmware
> >
> > ...
> >
> > firmware_get: failed to load firmware image iwi_bss
> > iwi0: could not load firmware
> >
> > 		pciconf -lv
> > iwi0@pci6:11:0:	class=3D0x028000 card=3D0x27538086 chip=3D0x42208086 re=
v=3D0x05
> > hdr=3D0x00 vendor   =3D 'Intel Corporation'
> >     device   =3D 'PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection'
> >     class    =3D network
> >
> > Please can you tell me something to do about this?
>
> The firmware image file could not be loaded; verify it is present and
> named properly.  The driver in cvs will accept either 2.4 or 3.x rev
> image formats so if you get the filename right it should just work.
> Unfortunately there was a period of time where the driver in cvs would
> only accept rev 3.0 firmware then the names associated with the firmware
> changed, etc.  As a result some people have bogus firmware files on
> their system.
>
> When in doubt you can pre-load the firmware with kldload.  Unfortunately
> firmware(9) doesn't have any debug msgs to show things like firmware
> images being registered.  This would be useful for cases like this.

Here is a small patch to build a "debug.firmware" sysctl.  Should give:=20
"iwi_bss/300/191142" for the latest firmware from net/iwi-firmware-kmod

Any comments on the patch?  Will commit shortly otherwise.

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