6-BETA1 iwi + wpa_supplicant fails, and sometimes silently re boots

Kirk Davis Kirk.Davis at epsb.ca
Tue Jul 26 18:50:08 GMT 2005


I used the package install of the 1.3 firmware so you are probably ok.  I
think the 1.3 firmware was the first version with the WPA support.

--- Kirk 

-----Original Message-----
From: Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH [mailto:allbery at ece.cmu.edu] 
Sent: July 26, 2005 12:32 PM
To: Kirk Davis
Cc: 'freebsd-current at freebsd.org'
Subject: RE: 6-BETA1 iwi + wpa_supplicant fails, and sometimes silently re
boots

On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 10:45 -0600, Kirk Davis wrote:
> into /etc/make.conf and recompile.  You will also need to install the new
> firmware for the driver that can be found here:
> http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/

I had previously been using the 1.3 firmware from that site with the
same lack of success, but recently I installed the net/iwi-firmware port
instead.  Should I switch back?

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brandon s. allbery   [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl]      allbery at kf8nh.com
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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon univ.         KF8NH


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