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

[John Baldwin]

On Friday 20 July 2007 07:21:00 pm Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> 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.

Can you get verbose dmesg's both with and without ACPI?

-- 
John Baldwin