6-BETA1 iwi + wpa_supplicant fails, and sometimes silently re
boots
Sam Leffler
sam at errno.com
Wed Jul 27 05:15:43 GMT 2005
Kirk Davis wrote:
> Ahh... You are right Sam. I was trying to think of all the things I did to
> get it working and I did forget the wlan_tkip module that I load at startup.
>
>
> Yes, The main problem I had with the iwi driver was the firmware. Is it
> possible for someone to MFC the devd.conf changes to support this card?
> Once you let devd handle the firmware then dhclient works a lot better for
> roaming.
The firmware isn't in the base system so modfiying devd.conf doesn't
make sense. I believe it's sufficient to load the firmware from a
start_if.iwi0 script in which case the port/package that has the
firmware could set this up for you.
Sam
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