FreeBSD and Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG

[Daniel Underwood]

What is the contents of your /etc/rc.conf file?

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Fernando Apesteguía
<fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/4/23 Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta at gmail.com>:
>> [SOLVED]
>>
>> Thanks for the help, folks. It works fine now.
>
> I wasn't that lucky :)
>
> I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p4 #12
> This is my loader.conf configuration:
>
> legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1
> iwi_bss_load="YES"
> iwi_ibss_load="YES"
> iwi_monitor_load="YES"
>
> And in my kernel config I have:
>
> device          pci
>
> device          wlan            # 802.11 support
> device          wlan_wep        # 802.11 WEP support
> device          wlan_ccmp       # 802.11 CCMP support
> device          wlan_tkip       # 802.11 TKIP support
> device          wlan_amrr       # AMRR transmit rate control algorithm
> device          wlan_scan_ap    # 802.11 AP mode scanning
> device          wlan_scan_sta   # 802.11 STA mode scanning
>
> device          iwi             # For Intel Pro Wireless 2200bg
>
> device          firmware        # firmware assist module
>
> This is the output of ifconfig:
>
> iwi0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>        ether 00:0e:35:fd:aa:0f
>        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
>        status: no carrier
>        ssid "" channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11b)
>        authmode OPEN privacy OFF bmiss 10 scanvalid 60 bgscan
>        bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi11b 7 roam:rate11b 1 bintval 0
>
> After seting debug.iwi=1 this is what I get when I try to bring the
> interface up:
>
> $ ifconfig iwi0 up
>
> iwi_newstate: INIT -> INIT flags 0x0
> enter FW state 1
> firmware_get: failed to load firmware image iwi_bss
> iwi0: could not load firmware
> exit FW state 1
> iwi_newstate: INIT -> INIT flags 0x0
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>>
>> 2009/4/22 Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta at gmail.com>:
>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>
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