FreeBSD and Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG

[Daniel Underwood]

Thanks Patrick.  After updating my /boot/loader.conf, it now contains:

legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1
iwi_bss_load="YES"
iwi_ibss_load="YES"
iwi_monitor_load="YES"
wlan_scan_ap_load="YES"
wlan_scan_sta_load="YES"
wlan_wep_load="YES"
wlan_tkip_load="YES"
wlan_ccmp_load="YES"

I no longer receive the error message about failing to load the
firmware. However, when I enter "ifconfig iwi0 up scan", I receive the
following in the xconsole:

iwi0: firmware stuck in state4, resetting

Any idea what that means, or what state4 is?  (Sorry, I'm very new to FreeBSD.)

Thanks,
Daniel

2009/4/22 Patrick Lamaizière <patfbsd at davenulle.org>:
> Le Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:04:41 -0400,
> Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta at gmail.com>:
>
>> After re-reading man iwi, I noticed that it says:
>>
>> "This driver requires firmware to be loaded before it will work. You
>> need to obtain iwicontrol(8)  from the IWI web page listed below to
>> accomplish loading the firmware before ifconfig(8)  will work."
>>
>> I'm going to look into this. Sounds like this may be the problem. Do
>> you think so?
>
> No, before FreeBSD 7 you needed to download the firmware.
> There is a port in /usr/ports/net/iwi-firmware but it is only for
> FreeBSD < 7
>
> You don't need anything on FreeBSD 7.x and you it seems you are not
> using the right manual page for 7.1:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=iwi&manpath=FreeBSD+7.1-RELEASE&format=html
>
> Regards.
>