From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 26 22:43:49 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A185916A408 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:43:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ryallsd@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7175D43D8B for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:43:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ryallsd@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m3so1221442uge for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:43:36 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=T4kvqKeySLCukuhucvIEGf6V5jeQt2sFCEpigF2bl2ldBpr1S3OP1FuWSxr8jZ0m67XtTDCxoZg0MAKMzKu8LxpC4d242pKI2aSqZfDYwmDqnbIs0ugagoQtg8s9lap5mNhgIyXT+7YV3zoENkHv/PhhgYdCmq9au+6ydYFEMCU= Received: by 10.78.185.7 with SMTP id i7mr2308561huf; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:43:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.161.20 with HTTP; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:43:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:43:36 -0700 From: "Derrick Ryalls" To: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Erik_N=F8rgaard?=" In-Reply-To: <44A052CA.9070104@locolomo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <44ejxbtzqo.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <44A052CA.9070104@locolomo.org> Cc: Lowell Gilbert , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: iwi-firmware X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:43:49 -0000 > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > "Derrick Ryalls" writes: > > > >> Prior to updating to 6.1, my Intel 2200 BG worked fairly well using > >> iwi-firmware and wpa_supplicant. Now, the firmware fails to load so I > >> cannot connect. I did some searching and some people recommend > >> installing iwi-firmware-kmod. When I try to do so, it is marked as > >> ignored and is uninstallable. Another suggestion is to use code in > >> /usr/src/sys/dev/iwi but I don't see a make file and I haven't a clue > >> on what to do with that code anyway. > >> > >> Does anyone know what I need to do to get this nic working again? > >> > >> #uname -a > >> 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #1: Wed Jun 7 03:18:16 PDT 2006 > > > > Can you be more precise about what goes wrong? > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/index.html > > > > I also suspect that you would have better luck installing the ports if > > you updated your ports tree. But that's just a guess. > > Are you using iwi-firmware from ports? there seems to be a perfectly > working driver, > > # kldload if_iwi > > That's what people suggest you to compile from sys/dev/iwi, but it's > also a loadable as kernel module. If it is not installed in > /boot/kernel, then it will also be built with the normal kernel build > proceedure. > Sorry for the lack of details. Sleep deprivation and hardware troubleshooting shouldn't be mixed. Previously, I was using the iwi-firmware port rather successfully, based on this webpage http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/iwi-freebsd.html At the moment, I do have the device listed under ifconfig iwi0 but I cannot associate with my AP. When I go to do a "iwicontrol -i iwi0 -d /boot/firmware/if_iwi -m bss" I currently get an error message in the /var/log/messages (sorry, can't access the machine to get the message) but I think it was something about the device timing out. Checking the help files for the error messages states the the error message should not happen. When I did the searching, several posts mentioned that iwi-firmware didn't work for them on 6.1 when it had on previous versions. Later I can update my ports to see if iwi-firmware-kmod now has the ignore setting removed, but according to http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/net/iwi-firmware-kmod/ the port hasn't been touched in about 2 months (unless I am reading something wrong). To sorta summarize, these are example steps that I used to take to get on wireless: iwicontrol -i iwi0 -d /boot/firmware/if_iwi -m bss ifconfig iwi0 up wpa_supplicant (args) dhclient iwi0 But now, the first step fails. The device is still present under ifconfig though. My world/kernel is only a couple weeks old, perhaps I cvsup'ed at exactly the wrong time (during some commit)?