Best way to load iwi firmware for wpa_supplicant?

[Marcin Jessa]

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 16:17:38 -0700
Peter Losher <plosher-keyword-freebsd.a36e57 at plosh.net> wrote:

> On Wednesday 14 September 2005 09:46 pm, Peter Losher wrote:
> > I now have a Dell Inspiron 700m w/ a integrated iwi chipset, which is
> > detected just fine, and works w/ WEP keys etc. with the iwi firmware
> > loaded from the local/rc.d script.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > However, I need to get the firmware loaded before wpa_supplicant starts
> > for those WPA networks I attach to. (which is why I still have a ath0
> > card sitting around)
> >
> > Right now, the preferred method seems to be having a
> > local/etc/devd/iwi.conf defined like so:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Yet when the system boots I get a error when wpa_supplicant starts up:
> >
> > -=-
> > iwi0: Please load firmware
> > -=-
> >
> > Is what I have defined in iwi.conf enough, or am I missing a piece here?
> 
> I finally got devd to recognize the device (and load the firmware when 
> detected), however to do so, I have to boot w/o loading if_iwi.ko; then when 
> right before the wpa_supplicant rc.d script is called, load the iwi kernel 
> module (whend devd loads the iwi firmware) then wpa_supplicant is able to 
> associate with the WPA network I have here.  But this is brutally hackish, 
> and there has to be a better (and cleaner) way for devd to do this properly 
> at startup....
> 
> Ideas?

Why are you loading the module at all and not compile it into your kernel?