From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 12 19:34:07 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31B8016A468 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:34:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from robin@reportlab.com) Received: from pih-relay06.plus.net (pih-relay06.plus.net [212.159.14.133]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E740413C44C for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:34:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from robin@reportlab.com) Received: from [87.114.72.44] (helo=[192.168.0.3]) by pih-relay06.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1HyC7w-00028A-R8 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:34:05 +0100 Message-ID: <466EF52D.2080800@jessikat.plus.net> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:34:05 +0000 From: Robin Becker User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: iwi won't switch on at boot 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: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:34:07 -0000 I have an acer laptop with an intel 2200 wifi; when I had PCBSD 1.3 installed I could boot from cold and have the wireless start up properly (it's using wpa with a hidden ssid ap). After I installed freebsd 6.2 I cannot get the wireless to come up on first boot. I seem to have to switch the wireless on and then reboot. I think under PCBSD is used to have to do something like sysctl dev.iwi.0.radio=1 in one of the startup scripts to make this work. Now however when I execute that I see a message saying that oid is read only. Is there some way to get this wifi starting properly again? -- Robin Becker various bits of information $ uname -a FreeBSD xxx.net 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 11:05:30 UTC 2007 root@dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 $ kldstat Id Refs Address Size Name 1 15 0xc0400000 70794c kernel 2 1 0xc0b08000 1adb8 linux.ko 3 1 0xc0b23000 e1a8 if_iwi.ko 4 2 0xc0b32000 2d60 firmware.ko 5 1 0xc0b35000 2cf4 wlan_acl.ko 6 1 0xc0b38000 59f20 acpi.ko 7 1 0xc4f27000 4000 logo_saver.ko $ pkg_info | grep iwi iwi-firmware-2.4_7 Intel PRO/Wireless 2200 Driver Firmware iwi-firmware-kmod-3.0_2 Intel PRO/Wireless 2200 Firmware Kernel Module $ cat /boot/loader.conf if_iwi_load="YES" firmware_load="YES" wlan_load="YES" wlan_acl_load="YES" wlan_wep_load="YES" wlan_ccmp_load="YES" wlan_tkip_load="YES" messages ====== initial boot Jun 10 08:53:01 xxx kernel: iwi0: mem 0xb010 1000-0xb0101fff irq 17 at device 4.0 on pci6 Jun 10 08:53:01 xxx kernel: iwi0: Ethernet address: 00:13:ce:a1:2e:8e Jun 10 08:53:01 xxx kernel: iwi0: radio turned off ====== after switch pressed Jun 10 08:55:17 xxx kernel: iwi0: radio turned on ====== after reboot Jun 10 09:14:44 xxx kernel: iwi0: mem 0xb010 1000-0xb0101fff irq 17 at device 4.0 on pci6 Jun 10 09:14:44 xxx kernel: iwi0: Ethernet address: 00:13:ce:a1:2e:8e