From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 20 17:32:57 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B7831065673 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:32:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from me@janh.de) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.17.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E04B48FC1E for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:32:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from me@janh.de) Received: from janh.freebsd (e177245247.adsl.alicedsl.de [85.177.245.247]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu6) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0ML29c-1LaZF61Fgb-0008Qx; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:32:52 +0100 Message-ID: <499EE943.8050006@janh.de> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:32:51 +0100 From: Jan Henrik Sylvester User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Erik Johnson References: 20090219005943.F3665106571B@hub.freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19cKvzAYNYso8ArPxqs5kqlpme5DYsWcQvymDD XTzOWvqtLm7MlEQjC0CnP/KLIMZjIH9X8o0e3OrAEIfX5qPObL 1pekcYkT5lzhUP36Fwi/g== Cc: Curley , questions-list freebsd Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1: iwi problem with intel 2200 pro wireless card 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: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:32:57 -0000 Erik Johnson wrote: > I noticed on your loader.conf that you have the license at the end of > "WiFi Config. I placed mine at the beginning. as in the example below. > Have you tried loading that first? I'm not sure if it makes a difference > but might be worth a try. I'm interested in hearing back and keeping in > contact since we share similar config for older hardware. > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 > if_iwi_load="YES" > wlan_load="YES" > firmware_load="YES" > iwi_bss_load="YES" > iwi_ibss_load="YES" > iwi_monitor_load="YES" The ordering in loader.conf does not matter. I abandoned iwi some time ago: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-February/003125.html You might want to read the whole thread. Disabling bgscan is mentioned there somewhere. IIRC, that is a good idea. Do you really need ibss and monitor? Have you tried not loading three different firmwares at the same time? Last time I used iwi, I did not have to load the firmware manually. Up to 6.1 that was a requirement, but from 6.2 on, iwi could do it automatically. (And it worked better that way, IIRC.) Since the manual page tells you to do so, the loading of the firmware must have changed. When manual loading was required on 6.1, loading multiple at the same time was not a good idea. I never got monitor to receive any packages on 7.0, even after manually loading the firmware. It did work on 6.2, though. ibss was never really reliable. Cheers, Jan Henrik