wpi: "Radio transmitter is turned off"

[Stacey Roberts]

Hello Dominic,
      Good to hear from you.,

On Sat, 09 Feb 2008, Dominic Fandrey wrote:

>  Stacey Roberts wrote:
> > Hi Bill!
> >   On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Bill Moran wrote:
<snipped>
> >>>> Bill Moran schrieb:
> >>>>> I'm running 7 on an IBM Lenovo T61.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I'm having some weirdness with the 802.11 card.  It's a Intel Pro
> >>>>> 3945ABG, which appears to be supported by the wpi driver.  Rebuilding
> >>>>> the kernel with wpi support causes the NIC to be detected and a
> >>>>> wpi0 interface is created, but when I do "ifconfig wpi0 up" I get
> >>>>> a message that the radio transmitter is turned off.
> >>>>>
<snipped>
> >>>> Only to rule out the obvious. Is the wlan switch on your notebook in the 
> >>>> right position?
> >> Nice :)
> > So was this your problem?
> > I have the same notebook and have done the same procedure as you - enabling 
> > the hardware in
> > the kernel, but the switch on the front of the laptop is set to "On" - 
> > always..,
> > However, although ifconfig show the card okay:
> > $ ifconfig wpi0
> > wpi0: flags=8803<UP,BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> >         ether 00:1c:bf:5f:57:6f
> >         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
> >         status: no carrier
> >         ssid "" channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11b)
> >         authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 50 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 bintval 0
> > $
> > I get the following each time I try to ifconfig wpi0 up:
> > Feb  9 17:30:30 ibm-t61p kernel: firmware_get: failed to load firmware 
> > image wpifw
> > Feb  9 17:30:30 ibm-t61p kernel: wpi0: could not load firmware image 
> > 'wpifw'
> > Feb  9 17:30:30 ibm-t61p kernel: wpi0: A problem occurred loading the 
> > firmware to the driver
> > Feb  9 17:30:55 ibm-t61p kernel: firmware_get: failed to load firmware 
> > image wpifw
> > Feb  9 17:30:55 ibm-t61p kernel: wpi0: could not load firmware image 
> > 'wpifw'
> > Feb  9 17:30:55 ibm-t61p kernel: wpi0: A problem occurred loading the 
> > firmware to the driver
> 
>  Did you set the necessary flags in your loader.conf? I'm talking about:
>  legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1

Yep:

$ cat /boot/loader.conf
legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1
$ 

For reference:

$ uname -a
FreeBSD <snipped>.<snipped> 7.0-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE #0:
Sun Feb  3 15:42:51 GMT 2008
<snipped>@<snipped>:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/STEEL  amd64
$
Thanks for responding, if I need to provide more info, please let me know.

Regards,

S Roberts

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