problems configuring wireless using iwi

[Paul B. Mahol]

On 11/3/08, Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd at codelabs.ru> wrote:
> Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:22:12AM +0000, Khusro Jaleel wrote:
>> Am I supposed to download the firmware from somewhere or not?
>
> It should be built as a kernel module.  In 7.x it is already included
> to the base system, so there is no need for the port.
>
> As written in iwi(4), include the following devices to the kernel
> configuration,
> -----
>            device iwi
>            device pci
>            device wlan
>            device firmware
> -----
> and make sure that the iwifw module is built.  If you have no
> 'makeoptions MODULES_OVERRIDE="<something>"' directives in the kernel
> configuration, then you should already have the module.  If not, add the
> 'iwifw' to the MODULES_OVERRIDE contents.  The actual module should be
> in the /boot/kernel, named iwifw.ko.

OP is using CURRENT where iwifw.ko is split in several files.
It is not required to build custom kernel just to have iwi support.

> Your error messages indicate that you likely have no /boot/kernel/iwifw.ko.
> Of course, your actual mileage may vary.
>
> For the custom kernels, make sure that you have some 802.11 stuff
> included:
> -----
> device          wlan_wep        # 802.11 WEP support
> device          wlan_ccmp       # 802.11 CCMP support
> device          wlan_tkip       # 802.11 TKIP support
> -----
> The actual devices depend on your needs, but it is safe to include them
> all -- you can never know what encryption you'll be using.
> -- 

More debug output from iwi would be more useful.
Something like:

# sysctl dev.iwi.0.debug=1