From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 29 11:16:56 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C51D7106566C for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:16:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bschmidt@techwires.net) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BB248FC16 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:16:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz3 with SMTP id 3so2406001bwz.13 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:16:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.100.17 with SMTP id w17mr9352038bkn.43.1288349141113; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:45:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jessie.localnet (p5B0E1263.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [91.14.18.99]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u4sm731556bkz.5.2010.10.29.03.45.39 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:45:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Bernhard Schmidt To: me@kmwhite.net Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:45:37 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.2 (Linux/2.6.32-25-generic; KDE/4.4.2; i686; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201010291245.37615.bschmidt@techwires.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel PRO/Wireless 6050 in 8.1-RELEASE Problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:16:56 -0000 On Friday, October 29, 2010 10:32:52 me@kmwhite.net wrote: > I've installed FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE on a Dell Latitude E6410. Most hardware > works just fine, but I'm having a hell of a time with the wifi. Everytime I > try to associate with an access point, my terminal replies with: > > [..] > iwn6050fw_load="YES" > [..] > iwn0: mem 0xe6e00000-0xe6e01fff irq 17 at > [..] > iwn0: iwn_hw_init: timeout waiting for adapter to initialize, error 35 > iwn0: iwn_init_locked: could not initialize hardware, error 35 > iwn0: iwn_hw_init: timeout waiting for adapter to initialize, error 35 > iwn0: iwn_init_locked: could not initialize hardware, error 35 > > I know that that error has to be part of the problem. I just don't know > what to do next, and haven't been able to find any help further. Any ideas? > Additionally, any thing I forgot to add, please let me know. The messages indicate that you are using 8.1-RELEASE, but afaik 8.1 does not have the 6050 firmware module, did you get that from stable? If you're able to try stable/8, please do so, there have been a few additions/fixes regarding 6000 series chips which are not in 8.1-RELEASE. -- Bernhard