iwi0: could not load boot firmware iwi_bss

[Florent Thoumie]

Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've set legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 in loader.conf(5) and tried
> to load if_iwi but I get the following message:
> 
> % iwi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG> mem 0xc8218000-0xc8218fff irq 11 at device 3.0 on pci6
> % iwi0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
> % iwi0: Ethernet address: 00:12:f0:2c:f3:6e
> % iwi0: [ITHREAD]
> % iwi0: timeout waiting for iwi_bss firmware initialization to complete
> % iwi0: could not load boot firmware iwi_bss
> % iwi0: timeout waiting for iwi_bss firmware initialization to complete
> % iwi0: could not load boot firmware iwi_bss
> % iwi0: timeout waiting for iwi_bss firmware initialization to complete
> % iwi0: could not load boot firmware iwi_bss
> % in_delmulti_locked: purging ifma 0xc3caf420
> % iwi0: timeout waiting for iwi_bss firmware initialization to complete
> % iwi0: could not load boot firmware iwi_bss
> 
> jarjarbinks:~:105# kldstat | grep iwi
>  5    1 0xc4158000 30000    iwi_bss.ko
> 10    1 0xc4188000 e000     if_iwi.ko
> 
> 
> Help would be welcome.

Can you try to kldload iwi_bss *before* if_iwi, rather than having
if_iwi automatically loading iwi_bss?

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer

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