Problems with enabling iwi due to sysctl

Super Bisquit superbisquit at gmail.com
Sun Jan 22 17:46:23 UTC 2012


No dice, people. It isn't doing diddly.
# ifconfig -a
iwi0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
    ether 00:0e:35:53:a9:fe
    media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
    status: no carrier
fwe0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
    options=8<VLAN_MTU>
    ether 02:e0:b8:00:ba:fb
    ch 1 dma -1
fwip0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
    lladdr 0.e0.b8.5.0.0.ba.fb.a.2.ff.fe.0.0.0.0
fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
    options=2009<RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,WOL_MAGIC>
    ether 00:e0:b8:6d:68:0b
    inet 98.211.110.13 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 255.255.255.255
    media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
    status: active
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
    options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
    inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
    inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
    inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
    nd6 options=3<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV>
# ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwi0
ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE2: Input/output error
# kldload if_iwi
kldload: can't load if_iwi: File exists
# kldload iwi_bss
kldload: can't load iwi_bss: File exists
# kldload iwi_ibss
# kldload iwi_monitor
# ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwi0
ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE2: Input/output error
# sysctl legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1
sysctl: unknown oid 'legal.intel_iwi.license_ack'
 Yet the sysctl variable is on the man page
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=iwi&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8-current&format=html

The firmware module was created and installed.

/boot/loader.conf has

legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1
if_iwi_load="YES"
hw.physmem="1300M"
atapicam_load="YES"
wlans_iwi0="wlan"
ifconfig_wlan0="DHCP"


On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Michael Butler <imb at protected-networks.net
> wrote:

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> On 01/22/12 09:51, Super Bisquit wrote:
> > # sysctl  legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1
> > sysctl: unknown oid 'legal.intel_iwi.license_ack'
> >
> > On 9.0, the XML type input does not include the intel license.
> >
> > I switched to 8.2 thinking that it was the release; however, that is not
> > the case.
> >
> > What is the fix to this?
>
> This should go in /boot/loader.conf
>
>        imb
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