hp pavilion dv2500 laptop and "wpi0: radio transmitter is switched off"

jesse wilson jessemichaelwilson at gmail.com
Sat Sep 12 20:27:09 UTC 2009


Hi all. Just set up freebsd on an hp pavilion dv2500 and after setting
up /boot/loader.conf
with all the appropriate modules and the intel license agreement line
ifconfig wpi0 up
brings up a line that says "wpi0: radio transmitter is turned off"
even though I know the switch is in the "on" position. The switch is
supposed to glow blue when it's on, but it's red.  pciconf -lv reports
this as my wireless device:

10418086  Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN controller.

I don't have any ethernet cable and I can't get on the internet with
the laptop in question right
now. After doing sysctl debug.wpi=-2 followed by ifconfig wpi0 up I got this in
/var/log/messages:

Sep 12 11:54:25  kernel: Watchdog: tick
Sep 12 11:54:33  last message repeated 8 times
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: wpi0: could not lock memory
Sep 12 11:54:33  last message repeated 2 times
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: wpi0: timeout resetting Tx ring 1
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: wpi0: could not lock memory
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: wpi0: could not lock memory
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: wpi0: timeout resetting Tx ring 3
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: wpi0: could not lock memory
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: wpi0: timeout resetting Tx ring 4
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: wpi0: could not lock memory
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: wpi0: could not lock memory
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: Disabling Firmware execution
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: wpi_newstate: SCAN -> INIT
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: Resetting the card - clearing any uploaded firmware
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: Attempting Loading Firmware from wpi_fw module
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: Firmware Version: Major 2, Minor 14, Driver 4,
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: runtime (text: 80524, data: 32768) init
(text: 2668, data 32768) boot (text 900)
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: rtext 0xf802020
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: rdata 0x0
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: itext 0xf802020
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: idata 0x0
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: btext 0xf802020
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: Loading microcode  size 0x384
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: firmware status=0xffff0000, val=0x40400000,
result=0x40400000
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: Status Match! - ntries = 0
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: wpi_ops: command: 4
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: notify qid=80 idx=0 flags=0 type=1 len=36
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: microcode alive notification version 10e02 alive 1
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: notify qid=80 idx=0 flags=0 type=1 len=36
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: microcode alive notification version 10e02 alive 1
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: notify qid=80 idx=1 flags=0 type=161 len=8
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: state changed to 1
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: wpi0: Radio transmitter is switched off
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: Firmware loaded to driver successfully
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: wpi0: Radio Transmitter is switched off
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: wpi_newstate: INIT -> SCAN
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: wpi_cmd 72 size 8 async 1
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: wpi_ops: command: 1
Sep 12 11:54:33  kernel: wpi_ops: command: 2
Sep 12 11:54:34  kernel: Watchdog: tick
Sep 12 11:55:00  last message repeated 26 times
Sep 12 11:55:01  login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv1
Sep 12 11:55:01  kernel: Watchdog: tick
Sep 12 11:55:29  last message repeated 28 times

Any help you can give me with this would be appreciated.


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