From owner-freebsd-drivers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 15 00:20:33 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A60E5106564A for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:20:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jessefrgsmith@yahoo.ca) Received: from nm26.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com (nm26.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com [98.139.52.223]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 56EBD8FC13 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:20:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [98.139.52.194] by nm26.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Mar 2011 00:06:58 -0000 Received: from [98.139.52.150] by tm7.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Mar 2011 00:06:58 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1033.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Mar 2011 00:06:58 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 355470.95446.bm@omp1033.mail.ac4.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 69412 invoked from network); 15 Mar 2011 00:06:57 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.ca; h=DKIM-Signature:Received:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:Subject:From:To:Content-Type:Date:Message-ID:Mime-Version:X-Mailer:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=3zjT9BnnyHCnT19rJrssfhmh2pcDZCkRZUtGPIndtMKci/oDTsDA3TQETAy7UGTEofAu5Juib9H/yuWVyznptblY1VjQpyhJ9uwsw0PLGKfKFhnEohVDOGNDNhxWJ76wPAOJaAwLREFeUlWfiR8DiwkR8ABwCGngc+cufRO2Egk= ; DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.ca; s=s1024; t=1300147617; bh=3EL4VUQYZbHS6PzyHsVx2C7ZHzI/2MYpmWnP9QVPEXw=; h=Received:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:Subject:From:To:Content-Type:Date:Message-ID:Mime-Version:X-Mailer:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=A7fuoAP7BSZjnAaBZhUPPnTrnZvg2Q0q35oWL+STZwUA2aHsglWQRclWmCbHF8wxB5gW6Zo0ji+P/is2NAnnkjH1/seI70YnaDVtgGtAKin0MtlI6U/YRBmjtJW9L2sb/X8HzwJqvM43vkm0TkL6xM7Ann69MCdmCFrcZ6gkbRE= Received: from [192.168.0.104] (jessefrgsmith@24.137.101.247 with plain) by smtp142.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 Mar 2011 17:06:57 -0700 PDT X-Yahoo-SMTP: NPm1JouswBClX_uJxHJINmnKUpROdMKvLL0- X-YMail-OSG: j4eeOIcVM1nR362UcMvA9n6SV5fgQIyGpOjbEizp9aEnyHj 8pcBSexKySZ0JCaCLFleN1YhC6tEv0VkTxkD5jTJPeIKakSSsXESTGcrHvXI aJ3RilO7TRvt_u01MK8qUJ0WaWMcoCpIasQCREtaUHxqS9N8PUgCp3yfdoKq nhu5f67SXwZTLGgforPE_85caJoYKD0_v.UR7fz.KNRVbY3AS.ydvHHlWxfZ HHrTg1gbq7CT8tZ6pvWbz66L0nu290oxzF_Hne_DAhZsRbD2W6hkkQRlQrRz y7xPe3JN2VvhPcUpKLlGto2SsJKLYejwJrGMXh1nxPOr8JlHiwySiYnARy_E sClbrNNN_zS8Bw2IpX.m5s01OegId4hLKyXJ9hbvnQKuV X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: Jesse Smith To: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 21:06:24 -0300 Message-ID: <1300147584.2169.3.camel@hp-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Drivers and firmware for an Intel WiFi 1000 series network card X-BeenThere: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Writing device drivers for FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:20:33 -0000 > > Vince, > > Thank you for the quick reply. This seems to put me on the right track. > I loaded the files you suggested and my wireless card now shows up in > the output from ifconfig. I'm thinking this is a good sign. > > Unfortunately when I bring up the interface and scan for networks with > it, it doesn't find my wireless LAN. I also notice the light on my > laptop indicating the wireless device is working hasn't come on. I'm > thinking maybe the driver is loaded, but not the firmware? At least > based off my experience with Linux, that's my assumption. > > Where should I go to trouble-shoot this? > How familiar with wireless on freebsd are you? I will assume you are > running 8.x if you are running 7.x or lower things work a little > differently. > for 8.x you need to create the wlan device and associate it with the > physical interface, for iwn this would be > ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev iwn0 > then > ifconfig wlan0 up scan > to scan for nearby access points. > The firmware for the card is contained in the iwnXXXXfw module you > have > loaded. > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html > has a full description. > > If you have done this already and are still having problems someone > more familiar with the iwn driver will probably have to help I'm > afraid. > possibly try posting the output of ifconfig -a and the dmesg output > from when you loaded the modules. > Vince Thanks again. It turns out I was missing the "ifconfig wlan0 create" step after loading the appropriate modules. (My wireless experience on FreeBSD up to this point has been nil.) Putting it all together I've managed to successful scan local networks. I appreciate your efforts to get me through this. Jesse