Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 20:58:19 +0200 From: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> To: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New version of iwi(4) - Call for testers [regression!] Message-ID: <200604102058.25742.max@love2party.net> In-Reply-To: <20060410190049.4b6ad9a5@localhost> References: <E1FLRfM-000PcS-00._pppp-mail-ru@f11.mail.ru> <yged5fp4tvu.wl%ume@mahoroba.org> <20060410190049.4b6ad9a5@localhost>
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--nextPart1472137.COfGhgEvtU Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 10 April 2006 19:00, Fabian Keil wrote: > Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@freebsd.org> wrote: > > >>>>> On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 03:03:16 -0700 > > >>>>> Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live555.com> said: > > > > finlayson> #iwicontrol -i iwi0 -d /boot/firmware -m ibss > > finlayson> iwicontrol: Can't load firmware to driver: Invalid argument > > > > finlayson> (This worked OK with the original "iwi" driver.) > > > > New iwi driver loads firmware automatically. You need to install > > ports/net/iwi-firmware-kmod instead of ports/net/iwi-firmware. If you > > are using RELENG_6, you need to specify -DTESTING to an argument of > > make(1) when building iwi-firmware-kmod. > > I did that on 6.1-RC FreeBSD 6.1-RC #1: Sun Apr 9 20:07:42 CEST 2006 > and know I have the following modules available: > > fk@TP51 /boot/kernel $ls /boot/kernel/*iwi* > /boot/kernel/if_iwiNG.ko* /boot/kernel/iwi_ibss.ko* > /boot/kernel/iwi_boot.ko* /boot/kernel/iwi_monitor.ko* > /boot/kernel/iwi_bss.ko* > > Is there still something missing? No matter which module I try > to kldload first, it always fails with messages like: > > KLD if_iwiNG.ko: depends on firmware - not available > KLD iwi_bss.ko: depends on firmware - not available > KLD iwi_boot.ko: depends on firmware - not available > KLD if_iwiNG.ko: depends on firmware - not available > KLD iwi_bss.ko: depends on firmware - not available > KLD iwi_ibss.ko: depends on firmware - not available > KLD iwi_boot.ko: depends on firmware - not available This refers to the firmware(9) module that supplies basic support for firmw= are=20 loading and should be part of RELENG_6 for a long time already. How did yo= u=20 install that kernel? To fix it you can do: # cd /usr/src/sys/modules/firmware; make all install clean which should give you /boot/kernel/firmware.ko. Nontheless it would be=20 interesting why this isn't there already. > I thought the firmware was in the iwi_*.ko files? =2D-=20 /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News --nextPart1472137.COfGhgEvtU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEOqrRXyyEoT62BG0RAqA2AJ9nH5Lum0GV52F3wPRKs8vU5u1UlgCfYDaa Sy1vN/SIYtRh+ovN7f9BbqQ= =0G+O -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1472137.COfGhgEvtU--
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