if_iwi, boot firmware
Armin Pirkovitsch
a.pirko at inode.at
Fri Aug 29 09:52:19 UTC 2008
I guess I missed that part - works now, thx!
Lothar Braun wrote:
> Armin Pirkovitsch wrote:
>> Since my update from 7.0 STABLE to 8.0 CURRENT yesterday my wifi device
>> won't work any more. Loading the if_iwi and iwi_bss module works fine
>> and iwi0 is found - however as soon as I start wpa_supplicant I receive
>> the following error:
>>
>> iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete
>> iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null)
>>
>> The configuration as it is worked fine in 7.0 and I haven't found
>> anythung in UPDATING which would indicate that I have to change
>> something.
>
> 20080420:
> The 802.11 wireless support was redone to enable multi-bss
> operation on devices that are capable. The underlying device
> is no longer used directly but instead wlanX devices are
> cloned with ifconfig. This requires changes to rc.conf files.
> For example, change:
> ifconfig_ath0="WPA DHCP"
> to
> wlans_ath0=wlan0
> ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
> see rc.conf(5) for more details. In addition, mergemaster of
> /etc/rc.d is highly recommended. Simultaneous update of userland
> and kernel wouldn't hurt either.
>
> As part of the multi-bss changes the wlan_scan_ap and wlan_scan_sta
> modules were merged into the base wlan module. All references
> to these modules (e.g. in kernel config files) must be removed.
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Armin Pirkovitsch
a.pirko at inode.at
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