iwi0 firmware error on Dell Inspiron 6000 w/ Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG

[Stefan Ehmann]

On Thursday 25 October 2007 18:28:47 pluknet wrote:
> On 25/10/2007, Guy Helmer <ghelmer at palisadesys.com> wrote:
> > I just upgraded a laptop to FreeBSD RELENG_7 checked out on 20071016.
> > Previously, iwi0 had worked OK under FreeBSD 6.2.  After updating to 7,
> > though, iwi0 reports "firmware error" and nothing more happens.  I have
> > set legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 in /boot/loader.conf.  wpa_supplicant
> > and dhclient are running with the same configurations that worked under
> > FreeBSD 6.  I'm using the GENERIC kernel with SCHED_ULE instead of
> > SCHED_4BSD, and the loaded modules are:
> >
> > Id Refs Address    Size     Name
> >  1   23 0xc0400000 8d0750   kernel
> >  2    1 0xc0cd1000 111b8    geom_eli.ko
> >  3    2 0xc0ce3000 25ff8    crypto.ko
> >  4    2 0xc0d09000 ab40     zlib.ko
> >  5    1 0xc0d14000 6e48     snd_ich.ko
> >  6    2 0xc0d1b000 4a52c    sound.ko
> >  7    1 0xc0d66000 69164    acpi.ko
> > 10    1 0xc32fb000 22000    linux.ko
> > 11    1 0xc3595000 21000    radeon.ko
> > 12    1 0xc35b6000 f000     drm.ko
> > 13    1 0xc31ff000 f000     if_iwi.ko
> > 14    1 0xc3e4f000 30000    iwi_bss.ko
> >
> > ifconfig iwi0 reports:
> >
> > iwi0: flags=8803<UP,BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> >         ether 00:12:f0:12:1c:24
> >         inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
> >         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
> >         status: no carrier
> >         ssid "" channel 8 (2447 Mhz 11g)
> >         authmode WPA1+WPA2/802.11i privacy ON deftxkey 1 txpowmax 100
> >         bmiss 10 scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250
> >         roam:rssi11g 14 roam:rate11g 5 protmode CTS roaming MANUAL
> > bintval 100
> >
> > I've tried setting debug.iwi=1, and the kernel messages regarding iwi0
> > are:
> >
> > Oct 25 08:09:11 aquarius kernel: iwi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG> mem
> > 0xdfcfd000-0xdfcfdfff irq 17 at device 3.0 on pci3 Oct 25 08:09:11
> > aquarius kernel: iwi0: Ethernet address: 00:12:f0:12:1c:24 Oct 25
> > 08:09:11 aquarius kernel: iwi0: [ITHREAD]
> > Oct 25 08:09:14 aquarius kernel: iwi0: firmware error
> > Oct 25 08:10:17 aquarius kernel: iwi_newstate: SCAN -> INIT flags 0x0
> > Oct 25 08:10:31 aquarius kernel: iwi_newstate: INIT -> INIT flags 0x0
> > Oct 25 08:10:31 aquarius kernel: iwi_newstate: INIT -> SCAN flags 0x1
> > Oct 25 08:10:57 aquarius kernel: iwi_newstate: SCAN -> SCAN flags 0x1
> > Oct 25 08:10:57 aquarius kernel: iwi_newstate: SCAN -> SCAN flags 0x1
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Guy
> >
> > --
> > Guy Helmer, Ph.D.
> > Chief System Architect
> > Palisade Systems, Inc.
>
> Me too.
> (It works in authmode OPEN though, see my case on
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-August/076397.html)

On my notebook, I get similar errors most of the time. The problems started 
some months ago.

If I don't configure iwi0 via /etc/rc.conf, I can get WPA working something 
like this:

ifconfig iwi0 up
wpa_supplicant -d -i iwi0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
dhclient iwi0

IIRC it worked most of the time via /etc/rc.conf if I disabled 
WITNESS/INVARIANTS. Haven't been using the notebook too much lately, so I'm 
not sure if this is still true.

-- 
Stefan