Intel(R) PRO/wireless 2200BG unavailable on FreeBSD 6 ?

Enrique Ayesta Perojo eayesta at portugalete.uned.es
Thu Oct 13 01:48:58 PDT 2005


El Asteazkena 12 Urria 2005 04:03, YuHong escribió:
> hi
>     Is Intel PRO wireless 2200BG available on FreeBSD 6?
>
> 	I install this card like this, but it's unavailable.
>
> 	1. append ``device iwi'' to my kernel configure file and reinstall
> 		kernel,  then Intel card delected by FreeBSD when reboot.
>
> ========================================================================
> iwi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG> mem 0xc0214000-0xc0214fff irq 11 at
> device 2.0 on pci2
> iwi0: Ethernet address: 00:0e:35:20:58:1b
> ========================================================================
>
> 	2. install ports '/usr/ports/net/iwi-firmware'
> 	3. iwicontrol iwi0 -d /usr/local/share/iwi-firmware -m bss
> 	4. ifconfig iwi0 up
> 	The indicator light always off, never on.
>
> 	is somthing i losted? thanks for your help.
> 	please excuse me for my poor english.

Have you tried to connect it to the WiFi network? I have the same problem with 
the indicator led at the laptop, but the interface works perfectrly.
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