FreeBSD and Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG

[Daniel Underwood]

They should be, yes. I would try loading the modules (kldload) just to
be sure. If loading the modules doesn't fix things, then it's safe to
assume they were compiled in kernel. (But then again, I'm certainly
not an expert in this area.)

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Fernando Apesteguía
<fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Also, when you enter kldstat, do you see these?
>>
>> iwi_bss.ko
>> iwi_ibss.ko
>> iwi_monitor.ko
>> if_iwi.ko
>
> No. Shouldn't they be in-kerne?
>
> I compiled my own kernel with the settings I posted in my previous
> mail, including device firmware, iwi, wlan, etc.
>
> Cheers
>>
>> 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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