Cannot use iwi(4): "could not load firmware iwi_bss"

Jeremie Le Hen jeremie at le-hen.org
Fri Jul 20 23:21:50 UTC 2007


On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 11:57:21AM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> Thank you for replying :-).
> 
> I'm indeed not using APIC (ISTR it was designed for SMP, I don't know
> what benefit I could get from it considering my laptop is UP).
> 
> I stopped using ACPI a few months ago as it prevented psm(4) from
> working (albeit it ACPI+SMP doesn't exhibit the problem) (see [1]).
> 
> What do you advice me to do?  Do you need me to do some testing,
> enabling ACPI or something like that?  I'm at work currently, I will
> only be able to do this in a couple of hour.

Ok, I've tried with ACPI enabled and I confirm that iwi(4) can
successfully load its firmware in this case.  Unfortunately psm(4)
doesn't work so this is not an option for me.

Best regards,
-- 
Jeremie Le Hen
< jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >


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