From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 30 21:25:23 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 086F816A422 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:25:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@juiceless.net) Received: from smtp2.nblnetworks.fi (smtp2.nblnetworks.fi [217.30.182.231]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A39443D45 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:25:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@juiceless.net) Received: from ssl.nebula.fi (webmail.nebula.fi [217.30.180.120]) by smtp2.nblnetworks.fi (8.13.1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k0ULScSX016296 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:28:38 +0200 Received: from 213.243.138.177 (SquirrelMail authenticated user juicelessnet3) by ssl.nebula.fi with HTTP; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:25:19 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <60202.213.243.138.177.1138656319.squirrel@ssl.nebula.fi> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:25:19 +0200 (EET) From: freebsd@juiceless.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: WLAN not detected on Acer TM 292ECLi 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, 30 Jan 2006 21:25:23 -0000 Hi, anyone having WLAN working on an Acer Travelmate 290E? It doesn't seem to be detected at all on my laptop, which is a model 292ECli. As a Centrino laptop, it should have a Intel PRO Wireless 2200BG built in. I installed iwi-firmware from ports, built a custom kernel (world and kernel from -STABLE today) and checked that I have "options pci" and "options wlan" in it, just as man iwi says. I tried to load iwi as module with kldload, at boot time by setting if_iwi_load="YES" to loader.conf, and also tried to build it statically into the kernel. At no time, I get iwi mentioned in dmesg. kldstat says it is loaded when I load it dynamically. Also, the firmware is not found in /usr/local/libdata as mentioned on the iwi-firmware webpage at http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/iwi-freebsd.html I'm not by my laptop right now so I can't check, but somewhere I read that it is installed in /boot/firmware instead? But the mystery is, why doesn't the adapter get detected at all? Something I've missed? Anyone have ideas? Otherwise FBSD 6.0 is a great release - the first one I have successfully installed on the laptop. I've seen others having problems with Acer 2XX laptops also, so I recommend installing 6.0, and enabling ACPI when booting. Without, at least my panics, but acpi_load="YES" in loader.conf to the resque! --Ville